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Letter to SHRC – Mob violence in Doddaballapura, Bangalore

10.07.2023 · Posted in Communal Violence, Human Rights, Minorities

To, Chairperson,Karnataka State Human Rights Commission (KSHRC)4th floor, 5th phase, MS Building, Dr Ambedkar Street,Bengaluru – 560001 October 7, 2023 Subject: Seeking your immediate intervention in a mob violence case that took place in Doddaballapura on September 24, 2023 Dear Sir/Ma’am, We wish to bring to your attention a disturbing incident that took place in ...

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From Communal Policing to Hate Crimes – The Attack on Ambedkar’s Dream of Fraternity

12.09.2021 · Posted in Communal Violence, Report

A Report on Dakshina Kannada (January – September 2021) Report by: PUCL-K, AILAJ, AIPF and Gauri Lankesh News ...

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|Fact Finding Report| Attacking Pubs and Birthday Parties ~ Communal Policing by Hindutva Outfits

[Read the full report Here] On January 24, 2009, Pramod Muthalik’s men belonging to the Sri Ram Sene in coordination with Subash Padil (then of the Sri Rama Sene) stormed into a pub in Mangalore and violently attacked girls, on the ground that drinking was against Hindu culture. Three years later on July 28, 2012, Subash Padil (now ...

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PUCL Karnataka Statement of Somashekar Commission

8th February 2011 PRESS RELEASE B.K. Somashekar Report We are greatly disappointed with the final report released by Justice B.K.Somashekar commission Enquiring the attack on churches. While the interim report clearly held responsible some hindu fundamentalist organisations, Police, state administration and the Govt. The final report appears to have absolved the govt and the Police. ...

|Press Note| Response to Somashekhar Commission Findings

People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), Bangalore, wish to express their deepest disappointment with the principal findings of the Somashekhar Commission Report released recently, which absolves the state government and all the major right wing hindutva political parties and groups of all responsibility in the communal attacks on churches in Karnataka in 2008. The report ...

|Statement| Communal Mob Attack in Bangalore

People’s Union for Civil Liberties, Bangalore, strongly condemns the brutal and organised mob attack on Brother Phillip Noronha by members of Jaya Karnataka Vedike, in presence and with support of inspector BN Gopalakrishna, inspector of Whitefield Police Station. Brother Phillip was kidnapped in a van, beaten up and roughed up by these vigilante elements and ...