- Her criminal lifestyle had many casualties which also included the resignation of V. P. Singh the Chief Minister of Utter Pradesh due to the "embarrassment" she had become.
- The following conditions were to be agreed upon before she gave herself up: She should be spared the death penalty. - Her gang members should be jailed for no more than eight years. - Her brother should be given a position in government. - Her father should be endowed with his own land. - Her entire family should be escorted by the police to the ceremony that would accompany her surrender.
- The film Phoolan Devi is, loosely, based around her life.
- Ran for Parliament in 1996.
- Her way of life and treatment gave her severe medical problems.
- Charged with 48 crimes.
- It is alleged that she would only surrender before the portraits of Mohandas K. Gandhi and the Goddess Durga ("the inaccessible", "the invincible"). When the time came there were some 10,000 spectators and 300 law enforcers to greet her.
- Considered myth and never proven, she was seen as a Robin Hood figure who robbed upper-castes and shared the wealth with her lower-caste equals, hence the legend and naming of "Bandit Queen".
- It is said that after each crime committed by her she would visit a Durga temple and thank the Goddess for her protection.
- Abducted by a gang of dacoits (a member of a gang of armed robbers in South Asia and Myanmar).
- Married-off at the age of twelve to a widower some three times her age.
- Born to a lower-caste family in Gorha Ka Purwa in the Utter Pradesh province of India.
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