Keeping Alive the Battle for Justice in Hashimpura Case
By Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar
New Delhi: “Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organised conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.” These words by the African-American social reformer Frederick Douglass, quoted by Fateh Nadvi of the Khudai Khidmatgar at a meeting on the Hashimpura trial court verdict, probably best describe the sense of injustice the verdict has created among many people. A Delhi court acquitted all 16 accused in the 1987 massacre in which 42 Muslims were shot dead near Meerut, Uttar Pradesh by personnel of the Provincial Armed Constabulary of the state police. The meeting was jointly organised by the Khudai Khidmatgar and the Socialist Yuvjan Sabha.
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