Hashimpur mass murder: 16 cops get life term

Delhi high court on Wednesday sentenced 16 officials of the UP Provincial Armed Constabulary to life imprisonment for the murder of 42 Muslim men in Hashimpura in 1987. The court set aside the trial court’s judgement acquitting them. The armed police team allegedly rounded up hundreds of Muslim men in Hashimpura locality of Meerut, picked out some of them, drove them to nearby water bodies in a truck and shot each of them.