KANPUR: A district court in Auraiya on Wednesday sentenced former bandit Seema Parihaar and her four associates to four years of imprisonment and slapped a fine of Rs 5000 each in a kidnapping case lodged in 1994.
The crime relates to the kidnapping of one Promod Kumar Tripathi in March 1994. Investigations revealed that the kidnapping was committed by the then dreaded Lalaram-Seema Parihar gang.Lalaram was killed in a police encounter during the trial.
Once having faced cases related to 70 murders and dacoities, Parihar has been out of jail since October 2008 after being acquitted in 15 criminal cases and had been granted bail in the remaining 14 cases. District government counsel (DGC) Abhishek Mishra and ADGC Mukesh Kumar Porwal said that this incident was registered at Kotwali Auraiya on March 19-20, 1994. Auraiya was then part of Etawah district.
One Shrikrishna Tripathi, resident of village Gadhiya Baxiram, had said in his complaint that his 25-year-old brother Pramod Kumar Tripathi was kidnapped by 10-15 armed miscreants on the said night. “Later, it came to fore that the gang of bandits Lalaram-Seema Parihar had committed the offence. A case under IPC’s section 365 (kidnapping) was lodged at the Auraiya police station,” the DGC said. During the trial, bandit Lalaram was killed in a police encounter.
Defence counsel Kuldeep Dubey said Seema Parihar has been acquitted in 16 cases, and currently, only one case related to an attempted murder is pending against her. “Now, we would approach the high court and file an appeal against the judgment,” said Dubey. During her 19 years as dacoit, Parihar was an active member of the dreaded Lalaram gang and then Nirbhay Gujjar gang.
After Lalaram’s death, she assumed control of the gang which carried out over two dozen robberies and countless abductions before Parihar had a change of heart. She is facing trial in a dozen cases registered at police stations in Etawah, Auraiya and Jalaun districts, all dotting ravines. In her post-Chambal life, Seema Parihar turned to acting. She acted in the 2006 film ‘Wounded – The Bandit Queen’.
This was the first film where an actual bandit played her own real-life character. A contestant in Bigg Boss in 2010, Parihar also acted in a short film titled ‘The Ballot’.
The crime relates to the kidnapping of one Promod Kumar Tripathi in March 1994. Investigations revealed that the kidnapping was committed by the then dreaded Lalaram-Seema Parihar gang.Lalaram was killed in a police encounter during the trial.
Once having faced cases related to 70 murders and dacoities, Parihar has been out of jail since October 2008 after being acquitted in 15 criminal cases and had been granted bail in the remaining 14 cases. District government counsel (DGC) Abhishek Mishra and ADGC Mukesh Kumar Porwal said that this incident was registered at Kotwali Auraiya on March 19-20, 1994. Auraiya was then part of Etawah district.
One Shrikrishna Tripathi, resident of village Gadhiya Baxiram, had said in his complaint that his 25-year-old brother Pramod Kumar Tripathi was kidnapped by 10-15 armed miscreants on the said night. “Later, it came to fore that the gang of bandits Lalaram-Seema Parihar had committed the offence. A case under IPC’s section 365 (kidnapping) was lodged at the Auraiya police station,” the DGC said. During the trial, bandit Lalaram was killed in a police encounter.
Defence counsel Kuldeep Dubey said Seema Parihar has been acquitted in 16 cases, and currently, only one case related to an attempted murder is pending against her. “Now, we would approach the high court and file an appeal against the judgment,” said Dubey. During her 19 years as dacoit, Parihar was an active member of the dreaded Lalaram gang and then Nirbhay Gujjar gang.
After Lalaram’s death, she assumed control of the gang which carried out over two dozen robberies and countless abductions before Parihar had a change of heart. She is facing trial in a dozen cases registered at police stations in Etawah, Auraiya and Jalaun districts, all dotting ravines. In her post-Chambal life, Seema Parihar turned to acting. She acted in the 2006 film ‘Wounded – The Bandit Queen’.
This was the first film where an actual bandit played her own real-life character. A contestant in Bigg Boss in 2010, Parihar also acted in a short film titled ‘The Ballot’.