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She became known as the "Bandit Queen" who fought authority with knife and gun, and was often popularly regarded as champion of the downtrodden, after the fashion of Robin Hood. She first came to national and international attention in 1981 as the leader of a gang who allegedly killed 22 high- caste Thakur men in a village of Uttar Pradesh, in what was later dubbed the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. She denied any involvement in the massacre.
Pursued by the government and by various rivals, she nonetheless proved difficult to capture. The government of Indira Gandhi and the police finally made a deal with her that she and members of her gang would not face the death penalty. As a part of this arrangement, in 1983 she surrendered on a stage before a crowd of 10,000 people.
Imprisoned without trial for eleven years, she was released in 1994, after Mulayam Singh YadavMulayam Singh Yadav (born November 21, 1939) is a politician in Uttar Pradesh, India. He has been repeatedly elected to the Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly since 1967. He first became a state minister in 1977. In 1980, he became the president of the Lo, the newly elected chief minister of the state of Uttar Pradesh, directed lawyers for the state to withdraw all charges against her. This occurred at a time when many lower-caste Indians were organizing among themselves and becoming more politically active; Devi was thus tremendously symbolic to this group. After her release, Devi converted to BuddhismTian Tan Buddha statue in Hong Kong, remind followers to practice right living. Buddhism is a religion and philosophy based on the teachings of Siddhrtha Gautama ( Sanskrit; in Pli, Siddhattha Gotama , who lived between approximately 563 and 483 BCE. as part of the Indian Buddhist revivalistNeo-Buddhism is a modern Buddhist revivalist movement in India. As a popular movement, Neo-Buddhism began on October 14, 1956 when B. Ambedkar, the 20th century's most prominent Untouchable converted to Buddhism along with nearly 400,000 of his followers. movement. Still a popular hero, in 19961996 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty''. Events January January 5 Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone Jan she was elected to Parliament as a member of the Samajwadi PartyThe Samajwadi Party (Socialist Party) is a political party in India. It describes itself as a democratic socialist party. It was founded on 4 October 1992. It is led by Mulayam Singh Yadav. In the 13th Lok Sabha ( 1999- 2004), it was the 5th largest party.
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The 1994 Indian film Bandit Queen is about her life up through her 1983 surrender. She fiercely disputed its accuracy and fought to get it banned in India.