Fact Finding Reports

Dhinkia under virtual seige

Press release

A team comprising Dr. B.D. Sharma former Commissioner for scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes, K.N. Pandit, Visthapan Virodhi Jan Vikash Andolan, Chakradhar Haibru, Visthapan Virodhi Jan Manch, Kalinganagar, B.P. Rakshit, Peoples Democratic Front of India and Ajay, Visthapan Virodhi Jan Vikas Andolan visited the proposed POSCO site. The team intended to work out the facts finding and situation prevailing in the proposed POSCO steel plant site in the district Jagatsinghpur, Orissa covering 12 village of 3 Gram Panchayat namely Gadkujang, Nuagaon & Dhenkia.

Fact-finding Report on Forced Displacement in Jharkhand

An all India fact finding team comprising of six democratic rights organizations visited districts of Gumla, Palamau, Lathehar, East Singhbhum and Saraikela-Kharsewan between the 3rd and 4th October 2008. The objective was to look into issues and experiences related to displacement occurring as a result of project...

Statement of the Fact-Finding teams that Visited Jamia Nagar

The Place of the Alleged ‘Encounter’ of the Police

(A team of teachers, students, civil rights activists and intellectuals visited the site of the alleged encounter of the police with the ‘terrorists’ as claimed by them, on the 24 ^th September 2008. The team comprised of Prof. Siddique Hassan, Deputy Amir Jamat-e-Islami...

Fact-finding on Kandhamal Carnage in Orissa

A fact finding committee of 16 human rights activists from Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Orissa toured the violence affected parts of Kandhamal district during the last 2 days to ascertain the factual details and the background concerning the wide spread events of arson, looting and murder aimed at the Christian people.