As decided during the Indian Muslim Intellectuals Meet (IMIM) on 29-May-2022 at Delhi, the Indian Muslims for Civil Rights was formed on 28-Jun-2022 as non-political, non-religious organization to work for securing the civil and constitutional rights of the Muslims and other oppressed minority groups in India. The IMCR has been registered as a Trust at New Delhi.

Muslim community is one of the most oppressed, educationally backward, and economically deprived community among all the minorities in India. Other oppressed and backward communities includes the Scheduled Castes (Dalits) and Scheduled Tribes (Adivasis). This situation of Muslims is evident from several government-appointed committee reports, census data, national sample surveys, and academic studies, including Justice Rajinder Sachar Committee Report of

One of the key issue highlighted by Justice Sachar Committee was that ‘while Muslims constitute 14% of the Indian population, they only comprise 2.5% of the Indian bureaucracy. The Sachar Committee concluded that the conditions facing Indian Muslims was below that of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes’. As per Article-1 of UN Declaration on Human Rights-1948; “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood”