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"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)