Seema Parihar: Difference between revisions

Seema Parihar was born in [[Auraiya]] in [[Uttar Pradesh]], [[India]] in a poor family. She was kidnapped in 1983, at the age of 13 from her village of [[Bawine]] in [[Uttar Pradesh]] by [[dacoit]]s Lala Ram and Kusuma Nian, and became a dacoit herself.<ref name="Perappadan2004">{{cite news|last=Perappadan|first=Bindu Shajan|title=Real story of a female dacoit|url=http://www.hindu.com/lf/2004/09/27/stories/2004092701640200.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041012173850/http://www.hindu.com/lf/2004/09/27/stories/2004092701640200.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=2004-10-12 | location=Chennai| work=[[The Hindu]]|publisher=[[Kasturi and Sons]]|date=2004-09-27}}</ref> In 1986, she married dacoit [[Nirbhay Singh Gujjar]], but later returned to Lala Ram.<ref name="Hin2006">{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/former-bandit-joins-indian-justice-party/article3049713.ece|title=Former bandit joins Indian Justice Party|date=2006-11-19|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|publisher=[[Kasturi and Sons]]|accessdate=2014-08-28}}</ref> Parihar became the leader of her gang, and engaged in looting, kidnapping and murder in the regions surrounding [[Bihand]] jungle and [[Chambal River]].<ref name="Perappadan2004"/><ref name="Marks2007">{{cite news|last=Marks|first=Kathy|date=2007-05-04|title=Reformed bandit queen runs for parliament|agency=[[Associated Press]]|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070814033148/http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article2510909.ece|archivedate=2007-08-14|accessdate=2014-08-28|url=http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article2510909.ece|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|url-status=dead|publisher=Independent Print}}</ref> During her career, she killed 70 people, kidnapped 200 people and looted 30 houses. In June 2000, after 18 years of dacoity, she surrendered to [[Uttar Pradesh]] police.<ref name="Perappadan2004"/><ref name="Singh2008"/> She was jailed, facing 29 charges, including 8 counts of murder and half a dozen of kidnapping.<ref name="Tripathi2007"/><ref name="Misra2001">{{cite news|title=I have offers from political parties: Seema Parihar|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/I-have-offers-from-political-parties-Seema-Parihar/articleshow/674398809.cms|last=Misra|first=Meena|date=2001-08-07|location=[[Lucknow]]|newspaper=[[The Times of India]]|agency=[[Times News Network]]|publisher=[[Bennett, Coleman & Co]]|accessdate=2014-08-28|url-status=live|archivedate=2014-08-28|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140828194048/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/I-have-offers-from-political-parties-Seema-Parihar/articleshow/674398809.cms}}</ref> In August 2001, she said that she had received offers from political parties.<ref name="Misra2001"/>

In January 2008, she moved to the [[Lok Janshakti Party]], and in October that year, switched to the [[Samajwadi Party]].<ref name="Singh2008"/> As of October 2008, she had been acquitted of 15 of the criminal cases against her, and was on bail for the remaining 14 cases.<ref name="Singh2008"/>