31 Oct 2018
Order issued
ConcludedThe Delhi High Court entered convictions against police personnel in this judgment.
Conviction · Supports allegation.
Source: 2018 SCC OnLine Del 12153
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CW-2018-0029Meerut, Uttar PradeshJudgment 31 October 2018
Meerut Police PAC personnel & Ors. v. State of Uttar Pradesh & Ors.; Meerut Man & Anr. v. State of UP
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.
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By judgment dated 31 October 2018 in Crl.A. Nos. 574, 629 & 884/2015, the Delhi High Court (Coram: S. Muralidhar, Vinod Goel, JJ.) recorded the conviction of the PAC personnel, C-Company, 41st Battalion, UP PAC.
- Register number
- UP 15 CW 0003
- Case reference
- Crl.A. Nos. 574, 629 & 884/2015 / 2018 SCC OnLine Del 12153
- Court and date
- Delhi High Court (Coram: S. Muralidhar, Vinod Goel, JJ.), 31 October 2018
- Officer(s) at the material time
- PAC personnel, C-Company, 41st Battalion, UP PAC
- Present service status
- Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked
- Section 120B of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 364 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 307 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 201 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract)
- “We hold that this was targeted killing by armed forces of the unarmed, innocent and defenceless members of a particular community.” (at para 1.8)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum
- Conviction entered by High Court. Sentence: imprisonment.
- Present status of the proceedings
- No further proceedings are recorded in the cited sources; the judgment is the concluded position shown.
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Current position
The Delhi High Court judgment dated 31 October 2018 is the concluded position shown in the cited sources.
Evidence position
Recorded allegations
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Material fact supported
Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.
Official finding: supports allegation.
Attributed to the court
What the court found
Holding not recorded separately.
“We hold that this was targeted killing by armed forces of the unarmed, innocent and defenceless members of a particular community.” (para 1.8)
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Follow-up history
19 Sep 2026
(Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass; skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl))
Corrections (0): No corrections recorded.
Review: Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded.