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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)