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Uttar Pradesh: Why it took 42 years to convict a 90-year-old in India

  • PublishedJune 7, 2023

Last week, a 90-year-old Indian villager was sentenced for life in prison for the murder of 10 people in a caste crime that took place 42 years ago. Families of the victims say the court judgement has come far too late to hold any meaning for them and legal experts say this is a classic case of “justice delayed, justice denied”.

The evening of 30 December 1981 is etched in the memory of the oldest residents of Sadhupur village in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.

“A group of men entered the compound of my house around 6:30pm and started firing,” says Premvati. She’s not sure about her age but believes she’s around 75 years.

“They didn’t ask me anything, they just began spraying bullets at us,” she says, adding that within minutes, three of her children – sons 10 and eight years old and a 14-year-old daughter – lay dead around her.

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  • I don’t think the title of your article matches the content lol. Just kidding, mainly because I had some doubts after reading the article.

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