{"id":36171,"date":"2018-11-01T19:35:29","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T14:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=36171"},"modified":"2018-11-16T16:44:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T11:14:58","slug":"16-ex-pac-jawans-held-guilty-for-hashimpura-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/16-ex-pac-jawans-held-guilty-for-hashimpura-massacre\/","title":{"rendered":"16 ex-PAC jawans held guilty for Hashimpura massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/16-ex-pac-jawans-held-guilty-for-hashimpura-massacre\/article25385222.ece\">16 ex-PAC jawans held guilty for Hashimpura massacre<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The Delhi High Court bench has reversed the trial court&#8217;s verdict and sent 16 former jawans to life imprisonment, holding them guilty of murder in the 1987 Hashimpura Massacre case.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Important Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><strong>About Hashimpura Massacre:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>This incident took place 31 years ago at Hashimpura near Meerut.<\/li>\n<li>42 to 45 elderly men and boys belonging to the Muslim community were rounded up by the PAC personnel, packed into a truck and taken away.<\/li>\n<li>38 of them were later shot dead and the bodies were thrown into the Gang nahar (canal) and Hindon river.<\/li>\n<li>Five of them survived to recount the horror.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li>The 19 PAC personnel were made accused in the primary trial that took place at the Tees Hazari Court in Delhi.<\/li>\n<li>However the trial court ruled in 2015 that killings took place but the accused could not be proven guilty of the crime and were acquitted by the court.<\/li>\n<li>The Delhi High Court reversed the trial court&#8217;s verdict and all 16 former PAC personnel were held guilty of criminal conspiracy, kidnapping, murder and destruction of evidence.<\/li>\n<li>The high court termed the massacre &#8220;targeted killing&#8221; of unarmed and defenceless people by the police. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on each of the convicts.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16 ex-PAC jawans held guilty for Hashimpura massacre News: The Delhi High Court bench has reversed the trial court&#8217;s verdict and sent 16 former jawans to life imprisonment, holding them guilty of murder in the 1987 Hashimpura Massacre case. Important Facts: About Hashimpura Massacre: This incident took place 31 years ago at Hashimpura near Meerut.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/16-ex-pac-jawans-held-guilty-for-hashimpura-massacre\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">16 ex-PAC jawans held guilty for Hashimpura massacre<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[224,767],"class_list":["post-36171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","tag-gs-2","tag-hashimpura-massacre","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704795587},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}