Meerut Massacre

Sixteen former police personnel have been sentenced to life for killing 42 people of a minority community in Uttar Pradesh in 1987. The Delhi High Court called the Hashimpura massacre in Meerut as "targeted killing" of unarmed and defenceless persons and overturned the trial court's verdict which had acquitted the accused.

The Delhi High Court today sentenced 16 former policemen to life imprisonment for killing 42 people of a minority community in the 1987 Hashimpura massacre case at Meerut in Uttar Pradesh.

The Samajwadi Party government in Uttar Pradesh has decided to approach the Delhi High Court to challenge a trial court's acquittal of the 16 policemen accused of killing 42 people in Hashimpura in Meerut in 1987.

On 22 May 1987, a group of men were rounded up by the Army and the police from the largely Muslim Hashimpura mohalla in Meerut and handed over the Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) of the Uttar Pradesh police.

A trial court acquitted 16 policemen accused in the Hashimpura massacre case - the killing of 42 Muslim men in Meerut in May 1987 - on Saturday, saying the evidence against them was insufficient. But the survivors and their lawyer say the investigation was shoddy.

A Young Muslim's Take On Hashimpura, The Forgotten Massacre - by Mohd Asim

Nearly three decades after 42 Muslim men were killed in Meerut in western Uttar Pradesh, a trial court in Delhi acquitted 16 policemen accused in the case, giving them the "benefit of doubt".

Sixteen policemen were acquitted by a court today of the charges of murder and other crimes in the 1987 Hashimpura massacre case in which 42 people were killed in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut city.

Sixteen former police personnel have been sentenced to life for killing 42 people of a minority community in Uttar Pradesh in 1987. The Delhi High Court called the Hashimpura massacre in Meerut as "targeted killing" of unarmed and defenceless persons and overturned the trial court's verdict which had acquitted the accused.

The Delhi High Court today sentenced 16 former policemen to life imprisonment for killing 42 people of a minority community in the 1987 Hashimpura massacre case at Meerut in Uttar Pradesh.

The Samajwadi Party government in Uttar Pradesh has decided to approach the Delhi High Court to challenge a trial court's acquittal of the 16 policemen accused of killing 42 people in Hashimpura in Meerut in 1987.

On 22 May 1987, a group of men were rounded up by the Army and the police from the largely Muslim Hashimpura mohalla in Meerut and handed over the Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) of the Uttar Pradesh police.

A trial court acquitted 16 policemen accused in the Hashimpura massacre case - the killing of 42 Muslim men in Meerut in May 1987 - on Saturday, saying the evidence against them was insufficient. But the survivors and their lawyer say the investigation was shoddy.

A Young Muslim's Take On Hashimpura, The Forgotten Massacre - by Mohd Asim

Nearly three decades after 42 Muslim men were killed in Meerut in western Uttar Pradesh, a trial court in Delhi acquitted 16 policemen accused in the case, giving them the "benefit of doubt".

Sixteen policemen were acquitted by a court today of the charges of murder and other crimes in the 1987 Hashimpura massacre case in which 42 people were killed in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut city.