Prayagraj (Uttar Pradesh), May 11 (). The Allahabad High Court will review the acquittal of 39 accused in the 1987 Maliana massacre in Meerut district. In this, 72 people were allegedly killed by the mob, including PAC personnel.
The High Court has summoned the records related to the acquittal of 39 accused from the lower court.
Hearing an appeal filed by Rais Ahmed, a kin of the deceased, a division bench of Justice Siddharth Verma and Justice Manish Kumar Nigam said, “Summon the record of the trial court.” The next hearing of the case will be on August 14.
Raees has challenged the Meerut district sessions court’s verdict that had acquitted all the 39 accused on March 31 this year due to lack of evidence.
It is noteworthy that on May 23, 1987, riots broke out in Maliana following clashes in neighboring Hashimpura a day earlier.
72 people died in the violence in Maliana, while 42 people lost their lives in Hashimpura.
A day before the Maliana massacre, 42 Muslims were allegedly rounded up by PAC personnel in Meerut’s Hashimpura area, taken to the Upper Ganga canal in Ghaziabad’s Muradnagar, shot dead and thrown into the water body.
A Delhi court had convicted 16 former PAC functionaries in 2018. But later they were acquitted.
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