20 years after killing Phoolan Devi, Sher Singh Rana visits Behmai

Image Source : FILE PHOTO In July 2001, Phoolan was shot useless in Delhi by a Thakur youth. 
Forty years in the past, on February 14, 1981, a younger woman, who was pushed into the ravines, had shot useless 20 harmless individuals within the Behmai village in Kanpur district to avenge her sexual exploitation by a dacoit gang.

The younger woman then often called bandit queen Phoolan Devi went on to change into a Member of Parliament. Seventeen of these killed within the Behmai bloodbath had been Thakurs.

Who killed Phoolan Devi?

In July 2001, Phoolan was shot useless in Delhi by a Thakur youth, Sher Singh Rana, who claimed that he had killed her to avenge the bloodbath of Thakurs in Behmai.

Sher Singh Rana visits Behmai

On Tuesday, the occasions got here full circle in Behmai when Sher Singh Rana paid a go to to Behmai — his first — to pay tributes to those that had been killed by Phoolan.

He visited a memorial constructed within the village in reminiscence of those that had been killed within the 1981 bloodbath and paid floral tributes. He additionally visited the home of Raja Ram Singh, the primary witness and plaintiff within the bloodbath case. Singh died in December 2020 after a protracted sickness on the age 85. As quickly because the information of Sher Singh Rana’s go to unfold, virtually your entire village turned as much as greet him and cheer him.

Thakurs from close by villages additionally reached Behmai to catch a glimpse of the person who gunned down Phoolan Devi. He was garlanded and lifted on the shoulders by the native folks. Sher Singh Rana, whereas addressing the gang, stated that he would proceed to combat for the honour of Thakurs.

Though the vast majority of the present-day inhabitants in Behmai and adjoining villages has not been a witness to the bloodbath, everybody is aware of the incident.

What the youth of Behmai has to say about Sher Singh Rana

Shirish Singh, 21, who’s doing a pc science course in Kanpur, says, “My grandfather and father have told me about the Behmai massacre. We have grown up hearing stories.. For me, it is a dream come true to be able to see the man who avenged the massacre for us. My two relatives were among those killed. My grandfather says that he hid in a haystack to save himself.”

Shirish, and a whole lot of others like him, jostled by the crowds to take a selfie with Sher Singh Rana.

“For others, he may be a culprit, but for us, he is our hero,” stated Nandini Singh, a Class 12 scholar who climbed on to the roof of a neighbour’s home to have a glimpse of Rana.
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