* People’s Union for Civil Liberties, New Delhi
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30.12.2010
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Dear Friends
We inform you with a heavy heart that Sh. K.G. Kannabiran, former National
President of People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), leading advocate of
civil liberties and human rights and prolific writer breathed his last this
evening at his home in Secundarabad. He had not been keeping well for the
last few months.He is survived by his wife, his co-traveller an academic in
her own right, Vasantha Kannabiran and two daughters and a son.
K.G. Kannabiran, a distinguished human rights activist, was instrumental in
mediating between the Naxalites and the State in Andhra Pradesh along with
Mr. Sankaran who also passed away two and a half months ago. He was also the
President of the Andhra Pradesh Civil Liberties Committee. He had filed more
than 400 public interest litigation (PIL) cases single-handedly. In spite of
being a prominent lawyer instead of running for money, he chose social
service instead and fought all these PILs and many more cases without
charging any money. He had worked in the PUCL in the company of Justice VM
Tarkunde, Justice Rajindar Sachar, Justice RB Mehrotra, Surendra Mohan and
was for a long time President of the PUCL with Dr. YP Chhibbar as its
General Secretary. For the tremendous amount of work done by him in the
field of civil liberties he was considered to be a one man army by his
colleagues.
Kannabiran was a prominent and most scholarly writer on civil liberties and
human rights. He regularly wrote articles for the PUCL Bulletin apart from
writing for various magazines and newspapers. He wrote many books. THE WAGES
OF IMPUNITY: Power, Justice and Human Rights published by Orient Longman in
2004 is known to be his best and most read book.
In Kannabiran’s death the civil liberties movement in the country has
suffered an irreparable loss. This loss is particularly shocking as it has
come within a fortnight of the passing away of Surendra Mohan, another
stalwart in the field.
Mahi Pal Singh, Secretary, PUCL
Kavita Srivastava, Secretary, PUCL
(M) 9312206414, 09351562965
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Kavita Srivastava
(General Secretary) PUCL Rajasthan
Address for correspondence :
76, Shanti Niketan Colony, Kisan Marg, Barkat Nagar, Jaipur-302015
Tel. 0141-2594131
mobile: 9351562965
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