PEOPLE’S UNION FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES

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Founder: Jayaprakash Narayan; Founding President: V M Tarkunde

PresidentPrabhakar Sinha (Bihar); General SecretaryV Suresh (Chennai); Treasurer: Ritu Priya (Delhi)
Vice-Presidents: (all names in alphabetic order) Binayak Sen (Chhattisgarh); P. B. D’Sa (Karnataka); Ravi Kiran Jain (U.P.); Sanjay Parikh (Delhi). Secretaries: Chitaranjan Singh (U.P.);Kavita Srivastava (Rajasthan); Mahi Pal Singh (Delhi)

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For favour of publication

Press Statement

 

7th December 2013

Prabhakar Sinha, President, PUCL National has issued the following statement:

In view of the a committee of three Supreme Court judges holding Justice (Retired) Mr. A.K. Ganguly guilty of “an act of unwelcome behaviour (unwelcome verbal /non verbal conduct of sexual nature) with an intern, the People’s Union for Civil Liberties urges Justice Mr. Ganguly to gracefully tender his resignation from the post of the Chairperson of the West Bengal Human Rights Commission to uphold the dignity of the high office that he holds and also to uphold the rule of law.

 Sd./-

Prabhakar Sinha
President