THE CURIOUS CASE OF HASHIMPURA MASSACRE.

ESSAY FODDER—the hindu

JUSTICE DELAYED IS JUSTICE DENIED—THE CURIOUS CASE OF HASHIMPURA MASSACRE.

The maxim “justice delayed is justice denied” must seem like a tired cliché to the relatives of the 42 Muslim men who fell prey to bullets, allegedly fired by members of the Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC), and other survivors in Hashimpura in Meerut sometime in May 1987.

The fact that it required 28 years to arrive at a court decision in the Hashimpura massacre is itself enough to suggest that justice has been thoroughly denied to the victims of the gruesome crime.

on March 21^st 2015, the 19 accused were let free due to lack of sufficient evidence and the inability of the witnesses to identify the accused.

Clearly, there need to be more substantive changes in policing and the nature of the judicial process if India’s citizens from the minority community are to be reassured of the secular nature of the Indian state and the justness of its judicial system.

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