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Today in History: PAC officers kill 42 Muslims in Meerut massacre

5/22/2026

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On 22 May 1987, amid Hindu-Muslim riots in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, 19 Provincial Armed Constabulary officers seized 42 Muslim youths from the Hashimpura neighbourhood, shot them at the city’s outskirts and dumped the bodies in an irrigation canal. The killings sparked a murder case that later reached the Supreme Court.

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On 22 May 1987, amid Hindu-Muslim riots in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, 19 Provincial Armed Constabulary officers seized 42 Muslim youths from the Hashimpura neighbourhood, shot them at the city’s outskirts and dumped the bodies in an irrigation canal. The killings sparked a murder case that later reached the Supreme Court.