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| Phoolan Devi: Life in jail for 'Bandit Queen' murder | Phoolan Devi: Life in jail for 'Bandit Queen' murder |
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| A man convicted of the 2001 murder of bandit-turned-politician Phoolan Devi has been jailed for life by a court in the Indian capital, Delhi. | |
| Sher Singh Rana was convicted last week for the July 2001 murder. | Sher Singh Rana was convicted last week for the July 2001 murder. |
| Phoolan Devi, who became one of India's best-known political figures after giving up years of crime, was shot dead at the age of 38 in front of her home. | Phoolan Devi, who became one of India's best-known political figures after giving up years of crime, was shot dead at the age of 38 in front of her home. |
| Her life was immortalised in the 1996 film Bandit Queen by Indian director Shekhar Kapur. | Her life was immortalised in the 1996 film Bandit Queen by Indian director Shekhar Kapur. |
| A member of the lower castes, she rose to notoriety in 1981 when she had 22 upper-caste Hindu men massacred on Valentine's Day to avenge her gang rape. | |
| Phoolan Devi surrendered to the authorities in 1983 and served a prison sentence until February 1994. | |
| Two years later she became a member of the lower house of India's parliament. She lost her seat in 1998 but made a comeback the following year. | |
| Rana, who was arrested after her murder, escaped from pre-trial custody in a Delhi high-security prison in February 2004, but was recaptured in 2006. | |
| Last week, a court in Delhi found him guilty of murder and attempted murder. | |
| Rana had pleaded in the court for leniency, saying he had the responsibility of looking after his old and ailing mother. |