![]() ![]() As many as twenty-two men belonging to that village were shot dead by Devi's gang.ĭevi evaded capture for two years after the massacre before she and her few surviving gang members surrendered to the police in 1983. A few months later, her new gang descended upon the village of Behmai to exact revenge for what she had suffered. After escaping, Devi rejoined the remnants of her Mallah's faction who were gangs of Mallaah, took another lover from among those men, and continued with banditry. The victorious rival faction took Devi to their village of Behmai, confined her in a room, and took turns to rape her repeatedly over several weeks. Devi's lover, Vikram Mallah, was killed in that gunfight. ![]() She was the only woman in that gang, and her relationship with one gang member, coupled with caste difference, caused a gunfight between gang members. ![]() Having developed major differences with her parents and being raped multiple times by her husband, the teenage Devi sought escape by running away and joining a gang of bandits. Phoolan Devi (10 August 1963 – 25 July 2001), popularly known as "Bandit Queen", was an Indian female rights activist, bandit and politician from the Samajwadi Party who later served as Member of Parliament.īorn into a poor family in rural Uttar Pradesh, Devi endured poverty, child marriage and had an abusive marriage before taking to a life of crime. ![]()
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