Nainital wedding massacre

On April 21, 1950, a mass stabbing occurred during a wedding celebration in Nainital, India. According to Wikipedia, a Gurkha soldier who was described as drunk attacked wedding guests with a machete, stabbing 22 people. All of the victims were reportedly members of the Harijan caste, and the attack was described as apparently fatal for all of them.

The reported motive for the attack was the soldier's anger over the wedding itself: the marriage was between a money lender described as being from a lower caste and a woman described as being from the higher-status Brahmin caste. The Wikipedia entry states the attacker was "enraged" by this pairing and directed his violence specifically at Harijan members present at the event.

Two additional sources are referenced as corroborating material cited by the Wikipedia article: a contemporaneous newspaper archive entry from newspaperarchive.com (an Ogden Standard-Examiner listing dated April 21, 1950) and an archived Los Angeles Times item hosted on pqasb.pqarchiver.com dated April 22, 1950. Given the limited detail available — a single primary source (Wikipedia) with two unreviewed corroborating archive links — significant gaps remain in this case record, including the identities of the victims and perpetrator, the specific location within Nainital, the aftermath of the attack, and any judicial proceedings.