[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 ...
[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. ...
A REPORT OF RIOTS IN KOLAR REPORT OF RIOTS IN KOLAR – PUCL (K) AND CFD (K) On 2.10.1990, Kolar was rocked with communal violence. The clashes between two communities Hindu – Muslim resulted in a long curfew of 78 days in the town; a record of sots in South India!! The clashes were the ...
26 October 1990 Press Release [Download This Press Release] [Download Full Text of the CDF Report on Davanagere Riots] In response to the unprecedented or communal violence in Karnataka, Justice Shri V.M. Tarkunde, former President of Citizen’s For Democracy (CFD) and its General Secretary, N.D. Pancholi asked a team of CFD activists in Karnataka to ...
[Read Full Report] [From the Archives] There were communal riots in many towns of Karnataka during October 1990. They were preceded by riots in Ramanagaram, known as the Silk town of the state, 50 kms away from Bangalore on September 2, 1990. Tension has been stoked in this town by the Ganesh festivities followed by ...