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INDIA POLITICS PHOOLAN DEVI

"Bandit Queen" Phoolan Devi (center), in her new role as a member of Parliament, reaches Parliament House to attend the opening session in New Delhi Wednesday, May 22, 1996. Once an outlaw, with a dubious record of having killed several upper caste people, she has now become a lawmaker after defeating her nearest rival by over 30,000 votes from a lowcaste dominated constituency in the state of Uttar Pradesh in central India.(AP Photo/Ajit Kumar)

INDIAN BANDIT QUEEN PHOOLAN DEVI

Indian "Bandit Queen" Phoolan Devi formally surrenders at Bhind, India, Feb. 12,1983. For the surrender "Ceremony", Devi dressed in freshly-provided police clothing with a hair-band and shawl. Devi and her two dozen outlaws were later taken to jail to await their trial. (AP-Photo/Sondeep Shanker)

INDIA BANDIT QUEEN PHOOLAN DEVI

FILE - India's notorious "Bandit Queen" Phoolan Devi relaxes in her apartment in New Delhi with a security guard in background in this July 19, 1994 file photo. Phoolan Devi, who earned her nickname for allegedly murdering 20 upper-caste men to avenge her rape, declared Sunday, March 31, 1996 that she will contest the upcoming parliamentary elections on a Socialist party nomination from Mirzapur in Central India. Devi ran unsuccessfully in the last parliamentary elections. (AP Photo/Ajit Kumar)

INDIA BANDIT QUEEN PHOOLAN DEVI

Phoolan Devi, popularly known as the "Bandit Queen", receives garlands upon her arrival in New Delhi Sunday, May 12, 1996. She was elected to parliament as a member of the low-caste-based Samajwadi Party. She spent 11 years in jail under charges of murder and banditry but was released in 1994 on bail.(AP Photo/John Moore)

INDIEN PHOOLAN DEVI

Phoolan Devi, India's "Bandit Queen," is seen in this April 28, 1998 file photo in Bombay, India. Devi, a member of parliament, was killed outside her home Wednesday, July 25, 2001 in New Delhi by unknown assailants. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Sherwin Crasto)

INDIEN PHOOLAN DEVI

This picture dated February 25, 2000 shows India's "Bandit Queen" turned parliamentarian, Phoolan Devi, shouting during a outside parliament in New Delhi. Devi was shot dead by more than one assassin outside her official residence in New Delhi July 25, 2001. (KEYSTONE/- PHOTO/AFP/RAVEENDRAN)

INDIA NOBEL PRIZE

A gun-toting security guard watches over bandit queen turned politician Phoolan Devi, at a hotel in Bombay Monday April 21, 1998, who has reportedly been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by British labour MP Ken Livingstone. "I am happy to be nominated and the nomination itself will focus world attention on the plight of lower caste Indian women" said Devi, who spent 11 years in jail awaiting trial on charges of looting, murder, and kidnapping, was pardoned in 1994. In recent years, she has emerged as a champion of low-castes and has been the subject of a movie entitled "Bandit Queen." (AP Photo/Sherwin Crasto)

INDIEN BANDITEN KOENIGIN DEVI

Bandit Queen Phoolan Devi displays her old photograph to media persons at her residence in New Delhi Monday, February 24, 1997. Phoolan had gone underground for a while after a court ordered her arrest for her alleged role in the Behmai Massacre case where she allegedly gunned down 20 upper caste men to avenge her rape. The court has summoned her on March 20, 1997. (AP Photo / Ajit Kumar)

INDIA-BANDIT PHOOLAN DEVI

WITH INDIA-VOTE-BANDIT DEL01C-19960428-MIRZAPUR, India: "Bandit Queen" Phoolan Devi, backed by a bodyguard and supporters, stops during her hectic political campaign to be photographed 24 April in Mirzapur, northern Uttar Pradesh state. Devi, accused of killing 22 high caste men in revenge for gang raping her, is running for a seat in India's lower house of parliament. AFP PHOTO RAVEENDRAN/mc/mas

INDIA-ELECTION/PHOOLAN DEVI

DEL50-19980220-NEW DELHI: (FILES) A June 1996 file -graph shows India's famous "Bandit Queen" Phoolan Devi as she greets -graphers while posing in front of a statue of India's founding father Mahatma Gandhi outside New Delhi's Parliament House. Devi, once one of India's most wanted outlaws, is on the campaign trail again competing in her constituency in Uttar Pradesh. - -/AFP FILES RAVEENDRAN

INDIEN MORD PHOOLAN DEVI

Officials point to blood on the spot where Phoolan Devi, India's "Bandit Queen," was killed outside her home Wednesday July 25, 2001 in New Delhi. Devi, a member of parliament, was shot by unknown assailants on Wednesday. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Ajit Kumar)

INDIEN MORD PHOOLAN DEVI

Mourners weep next to the coffin of India's slain Bandit queen -turned politician Phoolan Devi in New Delhi July 26, 2001. Devi was shot dead by unidentified gunmen outside her official residence while returning from Parliament on July 25, and will be cremated in her constituency of Mirzapur later today. (KEYSTONE/- PHOTO/AFP/Arko Datta)