16 Ex-UP Cops, Acquitted Earlier, Get Life Term For Hashimpura Massacre

3,915 views · Published 31 October 2018 · 2:08 · Indexed 6 October 2026

Channel: NDTV · 2018 · News & Politics

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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 high court convicted the 16 former Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) personnel for murder, kidnapping, criminal conspiracy and destruction of evidence. All of them have to surrender on or before November 22.

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