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 ...
[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 ...
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 ...
[From the Archives – Januray 2000] [Read the full Report] Bababudangiri and communal situation in Chikamagalur town a PUCL-Karnataka Report A joint fact-finding team commissioned by the People’s Union for Civil Liberties – Karnataka (PUCL), which included members from Citizens For Democracy – Karnataka, and South India Cell for Human Rights Education and Monitoring (SICHREM), ...
THE KILLING FIELDS: Communalism in Karnataka The Constitution of India (1950) guarantees both the freedom of speech and expression (Article 19 (1) (a) and the right to freedom of religion and religious worship (Article 25). Each of these fundamental rights are expressly made subject to public order; Article 19 (2) and Article 25 (1) i.e. ...
[From the Archives] [Read full text of the report] A Study of the Communal Situation in Belgaum, Dharwad and Hubli by CFD-K/PUCL-K Team related to the aftermath of violence of December 1992 ...
From the Archives [Read the full Report] A Report by: Citizens for Democracy- Karnataka, People’s Union for Civil Liberties- Karnataka, Karnataka Civil Liberties Committee and Karnataka Ekta Karnataka has the dubious distinction of being ranked third in India and the first state in the South in the riots that broke out all over the country ...
[From the Archives] [Full Paper] “Dargah versus Peeta”: Hindutva’s Politics of Appropriating Syncretic Culture in Karnataka A paper by : Dr.Muzaffar Assadi Dept of Studies in Political Science University of Mysore Manasagangotri Mysore 570 0006, Karnataka For the past couple of years, Karnataka is witnessing the growth of communal politics, manifested in the form of ...