Criminalising the Practise of Faith
A Report by PUCL Karnataka on Hate Crimes against Christians in Karnataka ...
Posts Tagged ‘Communal Violence’
From Communal Policing to Hate Crimes – The Attack on Ambedkar’s Dream of Fraternity
A Report on Dakshina Kannada (January – September 2021) Report by: PUCL-K, AILAJ, AIPF and Gauri Lankesh News ...
|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 ...
Press Release – PUCL Dakshin Kannada
A six-member PUCL delegation led by its state president P.B.D’Sa, met the Inspector General of Police (WR) Alok Mohan and the Mangalore Commissioner of Police Seemanth Kumar Singh on April 2, 2011 and held discussions on a number of important topics such as human rights, communalism etc. Copies of several PUCL reports and publications were ...
|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 ...
Bajrang Dal attack on students in Mangalore
Another case of Moral Policing Fact finding report on Bajrang Dal attack on students of Vivekananda Pre-University College, Mangalore on 15th November 2009 Prepared by : PUCL, Dakshina Kannada [Read Full Text] ...
Asghar Ali Engineer on Communal Riots
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News Reports on Violence in Sagar Shimoga [September 2003]
VHP, Bajrang Dal blamed DH News Service SHIMOGA, Sept 15 The Karnataka Vimochana Ranga has condemned the “planned” acts of violence unleashed by the Bajrang Dal and the VHP in Sagar town for fulfilling their political aims. In a statement issued here today, District Convenor Kashinath said that the violent incidents in Sagar were part ...
Communal clashes rock Karnataka town [September 2002]
[Source] [From September 2002] New Delhi: South Indian city of KR Nagar witnessed a rise in communal temperature on September 13 evening following a clash between two youths taking on a communal colour. The tension led to communal clashes in the Karnataka state town the following morning and police resorted to lobbing of teargas shells ...