State Terrorism – Tyranny
Justice Saldhana at the request of PUCL Karnataka and Transparency International led a People’s Trinunal into attacks on churches in Karnataka. The full report has now been released and can be read here. ...
Posts Tagged ‘BJP’
|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 ...
Consultation meeting – Urban Poor v/s Karnataka Manuvadi Govt
Consultation meeting Urban Poor v/s Karnataka Manuvadi Govt 10:30 AM on 3rd July 2010 Senate Hall Central College Dr.Ambedkar Veedhi Bangalore 560068 Reason for and background to the seminar ...
Oppose the Auction of Karnataka
OPPOSE AUCTION OF KARNATAKA Demand People Friendly & Environment Friendly Development Protest in Bangalore | Town Hall | 3 June 2010 | 5:00 PM | The Chief Minister of Karnataka has announced that the two-day Global Investors Meet in Bangalore will bring 3 lakh crores of investment as well as around 3 lakh new jobs. ...
|Press Release| Government intereference in SHRC and Backward Classes Commission
Friday, 30 April 2010 Press statement Condemning the state government and BJP’s interference in the independent functioning of State Human Rights Commission and Backward Classes Commission The large number of incidences of abuse & exploitation of children, women, dalits, disabled, minorities, farmers & other vulnerable sections are increasing. The dislocation & displacement of these sections ...
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
Communal Violence 1999: Document Communal Violence 2000: Document Communal Violence 2001: Document Communal Violence 2002: Document Communal Violence 2003: Document ...
|e-Book| Cultural Policing in Dakshina Kannada
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 ...
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 ...