The Phoolan Devi Murder
Thursday, July 26, 2001
India's infamous Bandit bandit Phoolan Devi was hit in the head three times when masked gunmen opened fire outside her official residence in the capital.

Event list
Angered by the assassination of their colleague Phoolan Devi, Samajwadi Party members on Friday created pandemonium in Lok Sabha, forcing adjournment of the House for three hours.
The role of Uma Kashyap in the sensational murder of Phoolan Devi has become the key subject of the current probe.
An unidentified caller had threatened to kill Indian Youth Affairs and Sports Minister Uma Bharati on the night of Phoolan Devi's murder, police said on Saturday.
All three accomplices of Sher Singh Rana, prime accused in the Phoolan Devi murder case, were remanded to police custody till August 14 by Metropolitan Magistrate M C Gupta on Tuesday afternoon.
Delhi Police and security agencies are embarrassed over the belated discovery of two home-made revolvers at the government bungalow of 'bandit queen' Phoolan Devi that were used to kill her.
Ten days before her murder, Phoolan Devi told her mother that she was afraid that husband Umed Singh could get her killed over her vast property.
The Delhi police is looking for two more men who are involved in the murder of Phoolan Devi. Seven persons are already in custody over the Samajwadi Party MP's sensational killing.
Slain Samajwadi Party MP Phoolan Devi's husband Umed Singh on Tuesday threatened to take legal action against her sister Munni Devi for making 'defamatory' allegations against him.
The Delhi police has arrested one more person in connection with the murder of Samajwadi Party MP Phoolan Devi, who was gunned down in front of her Ashoka Road residence on July 25.
Phoolan Devi's husband Umed Singh has sat on protest fast on Monday outside Rajghat demanding a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the 'deep political conspiracy' behind Phoolan's murder on July 25.
A civil court in Kanpur has admitted a petition by the first husband of slain Samajwadi Party MP Phoolan Devi, claiming right over the entire property acquired by the bandit-turned-law maker.