People’s Union For Civil Liberties – Bangalore ~~~~ INVITATION ~~~~~ Release of the Preliminary Report on the Savanur Protests by Justice Rajinder Sachar On the 20th of July 2010 Bhangi families engaged in manual scavenging poured human excrement on themselves as a mark of protest. They were protesting against the disconnection of their water supply ...
Police terror in the Tarfail slum, Gulbarga Uncovering institutionalized caste prejudices and biases A report by PUCL Karnataka View/Download the complete report HERE [.PDF format] Background Note and Need for the Report On 8th April 2010, the People’s Union for Civil Liberties – Karnataka (PUCL-K) received a representation from Shri. Allama Prabhu Nimbaragi, Convenor of the Zilla ...
In response to the PUCL petition on the hazardous working conditions of Pourakarmikas and Sanitary workers: The High Court of Karnataka has constituted a 10 member committee headed by the Member Secretary of the Legal Services Authority. According to the court’s order, the committee will submit it’s report within four weeks of receipt of the ...
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] ...
Communal Violence 1999: Document Communal Violence 2000: Document Communal Violence 2001: Document Communal Violence 2002: Document Communal Violence 2003: Document ...
PUCL Dakshin Kannada A Fact Finding Report on the proposed eviction of Dalits and others from Tannirbhavi, Mangalore, in Karnataka. “Dalits At Tannirbavi Being Evicted” was the headline of a news item that appeared in ‘The Hindu’ of 14th June, 2009. We were shocked to read that the Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board (KIADB) was ...
Cultural Policing in Dakshina Kannada A Report by the People’s Union For Civil Liberties – Karnataka Table of contents: Chapter I- Introduction 1.1 Need and Purpose of the Report 1.2 Background to Dakshina Kannada 1.3 Consolidation of Hindutva Forces in Karnataka 1.4 Methodology Chapter II – Vigilante Attacks in Dakshina Kannada 2.1 Amnesia Pub Incident ...
This report appeared in PUCL Bulletin of March 2002 [Read Full Report] Police firing during VHP Chief’s birthday celebrations A report by South India Cell for Human Rights Education and Monitoring and People’s Union For Civil Liberties Karnataka Fact-finding Report on the incidences of rioting and police firing which followed VHP Chief Ashok Singhal’s 75th ...
PUCL Bulletin, January 2002 Karnataka: Mangalore PUCL Police Atrocities and Human Rights Violations at Katipalla By P.B. D’Sa Thursday 23rd 2001 morning about 100 men in uniform stormed the Katipalla town with Lathis, Tear Gas cells and guns to the utter shock of the unsuspecting citizens of this locality .The Police personnel beat up every ...
[Full Report] [A PUCL Bulletin from July 2002] REPORT OF THE TRUTH FINDING COMMITTEE HELD IN CONNECTION WITH THE COMMUNAL CLASH AT KODAGU IN DECEMBER 2001 PUCL-Karnataka recently conducted a fact-finding inquiry to go into the communal disturbances that took place in Kodagu from 9 Dec. 2001 to 17 Dec. 2001. The committee, which consisted ...