Out on bail, Phoolan murder accused marries girl from MP
DEHRADUN: Sher Singh Rana, who is accused of killing Samajwadi Party MP and former dacoit Phoolan Devi, got married on Tuesday in Uttarakhand’s Roorkee with a daughter of a former legislator from Madhya Pradesh. Rana who is presently out of bail said he has left his fate in the hands of God.
“I have left on God (to decide my fate) as I have no idea how long will it take the case to settle,” Rana told media persons shortly after marrying Pratima Singh. The mother-in-law of Rana, Sandhya Rajeev Bundela said her husband was elected as an MLA on the BSP ticket in 2008 from Chatarpur district in Madhya Pradesh.
Rana hit the headlines after he allegedly killed Devi at her official residence in New Delhi on 25 July 2001. Rana had said he killed Phoolan to avenge the killings of Thakurs by her in Behmai in 1981. Two days killing her, Rana surrendered in Dehradun.
He fled from the Tihar jail in 2004 and was again arrested in 2006 from a guest house in Kolkatta. In between, he claimed to have had gone to Afghanistan to get back the remains of Rajput king Prithviraj Chauhan.
A Delhi court convicted Rana in the Phoolan’s murder in 2014 while 10 other accused were acquitted. Rana challenged the lower court’s decision in the Delhi High Court which granted him bail in 2016.
Rana also unsuccessfully tried to enter electoral politics by contesting Jevar assembly constituency in UP in 2012 assembly polls.