 As of 2019, the President of the PUCL is Ravi Kiran Jain, Senior counsel from Allahabad, and the General Secretary is V. Suresh.Other notable office bearers include Dr. Binayak Sen, Sudha Bharadwaj and Kavita Shrivastava among others.The founding conference of the PUCL in November 1980, drafted and adopted the organization's constitution, making it a membership based organization.