Delhi High Court
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday convicted 16 former Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) personnel, sentencing them to life imprisonment for murder and of kidnapping, criminal conspiracy and destruction of evidence under the Indian Penal Code in in the 1987 Hashimpura massacre case in Uttar Pradesh.
A bench of Justices S Muralidhar and Vinod Goel reversed the trial court's verdict which had acquitted the accused.
It termed the massacre "targeted killing" of unarmed and defenceless people by the police.
The high court's verdict came on pleas challenging a trial court's decision to acquit 16 policemen of charges of murder and other crimes in the case.
( With inputs from PTI )
