TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rai, Vibhuti Narain 
AU  - Darshan Desai (Tr.)
TI  - HASHIMPURA 22 MAY: the forgotten story of India's biggest custodial killing 
SN  - 9780143427407 (paperback)
U1  - 363.232 
PY  - 2016////01/01
CY  - USA
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Police Service
KW  - Patrol and Surveillance
KW  - Rāya, Vibhutinārāyaṇa, -- 1950-
KW  - Massacres -- India -- Meerut
KW  - Police brutality -- India -- Meerut
KW  - Police-community relations
N1  - About the Book: Hashimpura: 22-May
Searching for survivors among the blood-soaked bodies strewn around the canal and between the ravines near Makanpur village, on the DelhiGhaziabad border, on the night of 22 May 1987, with just a dim torchlight—the memories are still fresh in Vibhuti Narain Rais mind. On that fateful night, when Rai first heard about the killing, he could not believe the news was true until he, along with the district magistrate and a few other officials, went to Hindon canal. He quickly realized that all of them had become witnesses to secular Indias most shameful and horrendous incident—personnel of the Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) had rounded up dozens of Muslims from riot-torn Meerut and had killed them in cold blood in Rais area of jurisdiction. Offering a blow-by-blow account of the massacre and its aftermath, Hashimpura is a screaming narrative of the barbaric use of state force and the spineless politics in post-Independent India.

About the Author: Vibhuti Narain Rai

Vibhuti Narain Rai, former police officer, is an eminent novelist in Hindi
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