A case of massacre where ______muslims were brutally killed in Hashimapur. This incident of ‘target killing’ took place in _________ decided the fate of the victims only recently in 2018, i.e. 31 years after the incident. The case was decided by the Supreme Court after an appeal was preferred by the family members of the victims.
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The Hashimpura massacre was an incident of mass murder of 50 Muslim men by armed police on or around 22 May 1987 near Meerut in Uttar Pradesh state, India, during the 1987 Meerut communal riots. It is alleged that 19 personnel of the Provincial Armed Constabulary rounded up 42 Muslim youths from the Hashimpura mohalla (locality) of the city, took them to the outskirts of the city, shot them in cold blood and dumped their bodies in a nearby irrigation canal. A few days later, the dead bodies were found floating in the canal and a case of murder was registered. Eventually, 19 men were accused of having performed the act. In May 2000, 16 of the 19 accused surrendered and were later released on bail. Whereas, the other three accused died in the intervening period. In 2002, the Supreme Court of India ordered that the case trial should be transferred from the Ghaziabad district court to a Sessions Court at the Tis Hazari court complex in Delhi.[1][2]