Hashimpura Victims

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.

Expressing concern that the Uttar Pradesh government had not given compensation yet to the kin of all victims of the 1987 Hashimpura massacre for their rehabilitation, the Delhi High Court today asked the authorities to disburse the ex-gratia amounts "expeditiously".

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.

Expressing concern that the Uttar Pradesh government had not given compensation yet to the kin of all victims of the 1987 Hashimpura massacre for their rehabilitation, the Delhi High Court today asked the authorities to disburse the ex-gratia amounts "expeditiously".