By TCN News,
Aligarh: Hasimpura massacre was the biggest and most important killing in the police custody and Indian government and its administration have failed completely in this massacre, said Vibhuti Narain Rai, IPS and former Vice Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi International Hindi University, Wardha while speaking as Chief Guest at an extension lecture on “Hashimpura Massacre & Culture of Impunity ” organized by the Millat Bedari Muhim Committee, Aligarh at the Cultural Hall of Maulana Azad Library, Aligarh Muslim University on Saturday.
He said that the PAC of UP had taken into custody 50 Muslim youths from Hashimpura locality and then took them on Murad Nagar canal and murdered 42 of them. VN Rai said that the FIR was lodged and the case went on till 28 years but in the end all 19 accused policemen were released by the court on account of evidences of their involvement. He pointed out that this barbaric killing on the basis of their religion was the biggest custodial killing in independent India.
Eminent journalist Qurban Ali said that Meerut was under Hindu-Muslim communal riots during April – June 1987. The murder of 42 Muslim youths by the PAC in Hashimpura is one of the biggest assaults on the Constitutional rights of Indian citizen. He said that the way UP government tried to protect the killers in uniform has raised a big question mark over its credibility.
He said that Professor Iqbal Ansari of AMU and Justice Rajinder Sachar had made efforts and got transferred the case from Ghaziabad to Tees Hazari Court in Delhi so that justice may be delivered but unfortunately that could not be achieved.