{ "record_id": "CW-2018-0029", "status": "current", "merged_id": "CWC-0939", "alias_merged_ids": [], "display_title": "Meerut Police PAC personnel & Ors. v. State of Uttar Pradesh & Ors.; Meerut Man & Anr. v. State of UP", "display_title_redacted": "Meerut Police PAC personnel & Ors. v. State of Uttar Pradesh & Ors.; Meerut Man & Anr. v. State of UP", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "district": "Meerut", "district_at_time": null, "city_town": "Meerut", "police_station_or_unit": "C-Company, 41st Battalion, UP PAC", "court": "Delhi High Court", "court_as_verified": "Delhi High Court", "bench": null, "case_title": "Meerut Police PAC personnel & Ors. v. State of Uttar Pradesh & Ors.; Meerut Man & Anr. v. State of UP", "case_number": "Crl.A. Nos. 574, 629 & 884/2015", "citation": "2018 SCC OnLine Del 12153", "judges": [ "S. Muralidhar", "Vinod Goel" ], "judgment_date": "2018-10-31", "date_precision": "day", "judgment_year": 2018, "incident_date": "1987-05-22", "incident_year": 1987, "category": "Other", "admin_category": "brutality", "admin_subcategory": "fake_encounter_extrajudicial_killing", "subcategory": "fake_encounter_extrajudicial_killing", "subcategory_display": "fake encounter extrajudicial killing", "protest_override_heuristic": false, "outcome_type": "conviction_by_hc", "sections": [ "IPC 120B", "IPC 302", "IPC 364", "IPC 307", "IPC 201" ], "officers": [ { "name": null, "rank": "PAC personnel", "unit": "C-Company, 41st Battalion, UP PAC", "publish_grade": "unnamed", "gate_reasons": [ "ledger:no_row", "key2:no_row" ], "ledger_role": null, "key2": null, "key2_agy": null, "key2_claude": null, "key2_union": null, "key2_gemapi": null, "key2_openrouter": null, "key2_gpt56": null, "grok": null, "jev_risk": null, "jev_p_culpable": null, "key2_gpt": null, "later_outcome": null, "name_public": null, "display": "PAC personnel, C-Company, 41st Battalion, UP PAC" } ], "officer_count": 16, "victims": [ { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Meerut man" }, { "name": null, "age": null, "gender": "male", "descriptor": "Meerut man" } ], "victims_redacted": null, "anonymised": false, "victim_count": 42, "sentence_type": "imprisonment", "sentence_max_years": null, "compensation_inr": null, "force": "state_police", "primary_source_url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/113980221/", "secondary_sources": [ "https://www.livelaw.in/breaking-delhi-hc-reverses-acquittal-of-16-policemen-in-hashimpura-massacre-case-sentences-all-to-life-imprisonment" ], "summary": "The Delhi High Court reversed the Tis Hazari acquittal and convicted 16 UP PAC men for the Hashimpura massacre of 22 May 1987, when C-Company jawans rounded up 42-45 Muslim men of Meerut, shot about 38 in batches at Gang nahar and Hindon canal and dumped the bodies in the water. Charge-sheeted only in 1996 with trial transferred to Delhi, all had been acquitted in 2015 for want of identification; on appeal with NHRC-intervenor additional evidence, the High Court held it targeted killing of unarmed defenceless persons. Each was sentenced to life (remainder of natural life) under Section 302/120B plus concurrent terms for conspiracy, kidnapping, attempt to murder and destruction of evidence, and ordered to surrender by 22 November 2018. State corrected to Uttar Pradesh (incident site; trial in Delhi). Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.", "summary_verified": "The Delhi High Court reversed the Tis Hazari acquittal and convicted 16 UP PAC men for the Hashimpura massacre of 22 May 1987, when C-Company jawans rounded up 42-45 Muslim men of Meerut, shot about 38 in batches at Gang nahar and Hindon canal and dumped the bodies in the water. Charge-sheeted only in 1996 with trial transferred to Delhi, all had been acquitted in 2015 for want of identification; on appeal with NHRC-intervenor additional evidence, the High Court held it targeted killing of unarmed defenceless persons. Each was sentenced to life (remainder of natural life) under Section 302/120B plus concurrent terms for conspiracy, kidnapping, attempt to murder and destruction of evidence, and ordered to surrender by 22 November 2018. State corrected to Uttar Pradesh (incident site; trial in Delhi).", "court_quote": "We hold that this was targeted killing by armed forces of the unarmed, innocent and defenceless members of a particular community.", "court_quote_para": "1.8", "confidence": "high", "verdict": "accept", "verdict_note": "HC reversed acquittal; convicted 16 PAC men for Hashimpura massacre (life).", "verification_status": "V2", "verification_badge": "V2 · Externally reported", "tier_badge": "Externally reported", "tier": "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded", "tier_history": [ "Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded" ], "allegations": [ { "category": "Other", "primary": true, "position": "Material fact supported", "position_explainer": "Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.", "official_finding_relation": "supports allegation" } ], "institutional_response": [ { "date": "2018-10-31", "action_type": "Order issued", "status": "Concluded", "authority": "Delhi High Court", "independence": "External", "legal_effect": "Binding", "description": "The Delhi High Court entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.", "disposition": "Conviction · Supports allegation", "source": "2018 SCC OnLine Del 12153", "recheck": "Not yet re-checked." } ], "later_proceedings": [], "final_outcome_url": null, "followup_history": [ { "date": "2026-09-19", "scope": "Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass", "method": "skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)", "result": "wrong_facts", "corrections_applied": [ "court_quote_para" ] } ], "followup_status": "checked", "last_checked": "2026-09-19", "link_checked_per_url": [ { "url": "https://indiankanoon.org/doc/113980221/", "link_checked": null }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/breaking-delhi-hc-reverses-acquittal-of-16-policemen-in-hashimpura-massacre-case-sentences-all-to-life-imprisonment", "link_checked": null } ], "source_assessment": { "established": null, "basis": null }, "v3_basis": null, "publication_basis": null, "reviews": [], "retracted": { "is_retracted": false }, "fidelity_checked": false, "verified_by": [ "chunk-03", "chunk-r02" ], "merged_case_id": "SWOTHERM-004", "officers_named_public": 0, "record_flag": null, "service": "police", "watch": "babuwatch" }