Seema Parihar
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Seema Parihar | |
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| Born | 1 January 1970 |
| Occupations | Dacoit (Bandit), Politician |
| Spouse | Nirbhay Singh Gujjar Lala Ram |
Seema Parihar is an Indian politician and former bandit. She was a member of the Samajwadi Party.[1] 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.[1] She was a contestant in Bigg Boss in 2010.
Seema Parihar was born in Auraiya in Uttar Pradesh, India in a poor 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.[2] In 1986, she married dacoit Nirbhay Singh Gujjar, but later returned to Lala Ram.[3] Parihar became the leader of her gang, and engaged in looting, kidnapping and murder in the regions surrounding Bihand jungle and Chambal River.[2][4] 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.[2][5] She was jailed, facing 29 charges, including 8 counts of murder and half a dozen of kidnapping.[1][6] In August 2001, she said that she had received offers from political parties.[6]
In the 2002 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, Parihar supported Shiv Sena.[5] In November 2006, she joined the Indian Justice Party,[7] and ran as its candidate for the Mirzapur-Bhadohi Lok Sabha by-election in 2007.[1][8]
In January 2008, she moved to the Lok Janshakti Party, and in October that year, switched to the Samajwadi Party.[5] 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.[5]
In 2011, Seema Parihar was appointed the head of the women's wing of the National Corruption Eradication Council, an anti-corruption organisation.[9]