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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)