Award To John Dayal 

Dr. John Dayal has won the Maanav Adhikaar Paaritaushik (Human Dignity Award) of Rs. 1 Lakh in memory of Professor M. M. Guptara. Dr. Dayal has spent his life investigating, and helping individual cases of human rights abuses, as well as struggling against structural human rights abuses aimed at whole groups (such as Dalits, Muslims and Christians), and fighting organised human rights abuses for example in Vadodara and in Orissa.