Wikipedia: Seema
Parihar is a former bandit and an Indian politician. She is a member of
the Samajwadi Party. Parihar claims that her inspiration is Phoolan Devi, who
was known as the Bandit Queen, and had also been a bandit before becoming a
politician.
~ Biography
Seema Parihar was born in Auraiya in Uttar Pradesh, India in
a poor Thakur family. She was kidnapped in 1983, at the age of 13 from her
village of Bawine in Uttar Pradesh by dacoits Lala Ram and Kusuma Nian, and
became a dacoit herself. In 1986, she married dacoit Nirbhay Singh Gujjar, but
later returned to Lala Ram. Parihar became the leader of her gang, and engaged
in looting, kidnapping and murder in the regions surrounding Bihand jungle and
Chambal River. 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. She was jailed, facing 29 charges, including 8 counts
of murder and half a dozen of kidnapping. In August 2001, she said that she had
received offers from political parties.
In the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, 2002, Parihar
supported Shiv Sena. In November 2006, she joined the Indian Justice Party, and
ran as its candidate for the Mirzapur-Bhadohi Lok Sabha by-election in 2007.
In January 2008, she moved to the Lok Janshakti Party, and
in October that year, switched to the Samajwadi Party. 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.
In 2011, Parihar was appointed the head of the women’s wing
of the National Corruption Eradication Council, an anti-corruption
organisation.
~ Popular culture
Seema Parihar played in the film Wounded - The Bandit
Queen. This film is the first instance of Hindi cinema where a “bandit
queen” played out her own real-life story on screen. Shot on location in the
Chambal Valley, the film was released in 2006. The film went on to win the
Critics Award at the Leicester Expo Bollywood film festival (United Kingdom) in
2005. In 2010 Seema Parihar also participated in season 4 of the Indian reality
TV show Bigg Boss. This show aired on Colors from October 3, 2010 and
Parihar was evicted on day 76 (week 11) from the house. Before participating in
Bigg Boss, Seema Parihar was in jail and filed a petition in Allahabad
High Court seeking permission to appear in the program. Allahabad High Court
initially rejected her plea to appear. In June 2015, she appeared in a music
concert in Delhi organised by Mox Music Company and Raj Mahajan where she told
about her experience how spent 17 years in jungles.
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