Senior Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Azam Khan said his party would take steps for fighting a legal battle on behalf of the 1987 Hashimpura massacre victims, after they were denied justice in the recent verdict pronounced by a Delhi court – acquitting all 16 accused.
The UP minister had on Saturday said that his party would not simply shed crocodile tears on this travesty of justice to the victims, but would take steps for fighting the legal battle. “Under the circumstances, we do not expect any remedial step for justice by them. Hence, we have to be prepared to take up the legal battle ourselves,” he said.
Khan said he would be organising a candlelight march to Rajghat in New Delhi on May 21 on the eve of 28th anniversary of the massacre. Over 40 Muslim men were picked up from Hashimpura and killed allegedly by 19 personnel from the UP PAC after riots occurred in Meerut in 1987.