HRF Urges West Godavari SP to Strengthen POCSO Enforcement
Date: 04-06-2026, To,Mr. Sri Adnan Nayeem Asmi,SP of West Godavari District. Sub: Seeking your intervention in enforcing POCSO Act and […]
Representations (English)
Request for district wide review of school infrastructure and basic facilities before reopening of schools in June
Date: 01-06-2026 To,The District Collector,Nalgonda District, Telangana. Respected Sir, Subject: Request for district wide review of school infrastructure and basic
Adavivaram data center: SEAC has No Jurisdiction
The project attracts the General Condition and is Category A and therefore the SEAC has no jurisdiction. Under the General Condition appended to the Schedule of the EIA Notification 2006, a Category B project located within 10 km of the boundary of a Protected Area notified under the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 must be treated as Category A and appraised by the Expert appraisal Committee (EAC) of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) at the Centre. The proponent’s own EMP (page 9) records that the site is 0.86 km from the Kambalakonda Wildlife Sanctuary boundary and 0.45 km from its notified Eco-Sensitive Zone (Sanctuary and ESZ notified vide S.O. 1366(E) dated 28.04.2017).
Seeking urgent intervention, mandatory preventive measures, and statutory compensation for Scheduled Caste (Madiga) victims of caste-based violence at Etla Erravelly Village, Shabad Mandal
Date: April 27, 2026 To, The District Collector & District Magistrate,Ranga Reddy District, Telangana State. Subject: Seeking urgent intervention, mandatory preventive measures,
HRF demands Immediate and unconditional release of all detained intellectuals, activists, and supporters of the workers during wage protests in Uttar Pradesh
Date : 20-04-2026 ToThe Director General of Police,Uttar Pradesh. Dear Sir, Sub: Arbitrary police actions against workers and their supporters
HRF urges the Telangana Government to release 102 life convicts on the occasion of Ambedkar Jayanthi
09-04-2026 To,Shri A. Revanth Reddy,Hon’ble Chief Minister, Government of Telangana. (Through Shri V. Sheshadri, IAS, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister)
Representation Against Proposed PTFE Manufacturing Facility by TGVSRAACL
Our Main Concerns
1. We were kept in the dark about dangerous chemicals
During public consultations, the company never told us about GX902, a chemical they now say they will use. We only learned about it after the Ministry asked for additional details. This chemical was never mentioned in the original application we were shown.
When we asked questions about PFOA (a banned toxic chemical), the company said they would not use it. But they did not tell us they would use other similar chemicals that are equally dangerous. This feels like we were deliberately misled.
Representations (English)
Kintukuru ‘encounter’ killings of Maoists: HRF submission to Magisterial Inquiry
It is the HRF’s considered view that the instant case must be registered as two crimes, that is under Section 109 and Section 103 of the BNS respectively in the Rampachodavaram police station under which jurisdiction the crime has been committed. The first is a crime of Attempt to Murder by the now deceased and the other a crime of Culpable Homicide Amounting to Murder by the police purportedly in self-defence. Therefore, the concerned police personnel have to be put on trial. The burden of establishing a preponderance of probabilities in favour of the exception relating to self-defence to a competent court rests upon the police personnel who have fired causing death. Importantly, the case must be investigated by an agency completely independent of the State police.