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Schooled into Hindu Rashtra – Interim Fact Finding Report

04.01.2016 · Posted in Human Rights, Report

Click HERE to read the full report For the last couple of years, newspaper reports have appeared about a large number of children from the North-Eastern states of Meghalaya and Manipur being transported to the southern states of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. It is revealed that this migration of children is the initiative ...

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Permanent Suspects

10.09.2015 · Posted in Human Rights, Report, Uncategorized

A fact finding report into the arrest of Muslim Youth in Bangalore. Published in 2013. Full report available for download @ : http://puclkarnataka.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Terrorism-and-Muslim-Youth.pdf ...

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| Fact Finding Report |Governance By Denial – Forced Evictions and Demolition of Homes in Ejipura

Read the FULL REPORT HERE From 18–21 January 2013, the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), responsible for providing infrastructure and services in the Greater Bangalore Metropolitan area, bulldozed 1,512 homes in the economically weaker section (EWS) settlement in Ejipura/ Koramangala. The 5,000 people rendered homeless by the four-day demolition drive included around 1,200 women and ...

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Governance By Denial – Interim Fact Finding report on Ejipura

Download full Interim report Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), responsible for providing infrastructure and services in the Greater Bangalore Metropolitan area, bulldozed 1,512 homes (comprised of 42 blocks), and evicted over 5,000 slum dwellers living in tin sheds in the economically weaker section (EWS) quarters in Koramangala (near Ejipura), Bangalore, from 18-21 January, 2013. The four-day demolition drive a^ected around ...

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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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|Preliminary Fact Finding Report| Attack on a Dalit in Maddur for attempting to enter a temple

05.08.2012 · Posted in Minorities, Report

In Hemmanahalli, a village near Maddur, Kemparaju, a Dalit priest was assaulted on March 15 this year for challenging a social convention that bars Dalits from entering the ‘garba griha’ of the local Chowdeshwari temple. Kemparaju was hospitalised due to injuries, and a case has been foisted against him by the police. This incident is ...

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|Fact Finding Report| An All Out War

04.14.2012 · Posted in Human Rights, Press Releases, Report

[Read the full report HERE] On March 2, 2012, Bangalore witnessed riotous scenes of confrontation between a large number of advocates and a section of the media which took place in the presence of the police in the Civil Court premises in the city. This was followed by a brutal lathi charge by the police ...

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|Preliminary Report| Death of Kitta Koraga, Safai Karamchari in Kinnigoli

11.27.2011 · Posted in Human Rights, Minorities, Report

Download the Report HERE In yet another tragic incident of death by manual scavenging in Karnataka, Shri Kitta Koraga, 45 years old, succumbed to asphyxiation while engaged in cleaning a soak pit in Kinnigoli town, Dakshina Kannada district on 6.11.11. On 7.11.11, PUCL, Bangalore, was contacted by Shri Balraj, member of Koragara Abhivrudda Sanghada Okkoota, ...

PUCL Karnataka State Council Meet Resolutions

05.25.2011 · Posted in Meetings and Events, Press Releases, Report

The meeting of the State council of PUCL-Karnataka was held at the premises of Fatima Retreat, Mangalore, on 14-5-2011, from 10.00 am to 2.00pm. Mr P.B. D’Sa, President , PUCL-K, presided over the meeting. Dr V. Lakshminarayana, General secretary, welcomed the gathering. The deliberations was attended by 17 state council members hailing from Bangalore, Mysore, ...