Man arrested over assassination of Bandit Queen
Indian police have arrested the man they say gunned down India's Bandit Queen.
Detectives claim he confessed to killing the outlaw-turned politician in revenge for her alleged massacre of 21 upper caste men two decades ago.
Sher Singh Rana, a college student that police said owned and drove the car used in Devi Phoolan's killing in New Delhi, has been arrested 375 miles away in Lucknow, the capital of the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
"Rana has confessed that he along with another boy, Rabindra Singh, put six bullets into Phoolan," said AK Saran, the state's police director.
"The boy said he had taken revenge for the Behmai massacre of February 1981, when Phoolan, as a bandit, had allegedly gunned down 21 upper caste men," Saran said.
Police had earlier said that three masked men shot Devi to death outside her New Delhi house as she arrived home for a lunch break from Parliament.
