3. Nirbhay Singh Gujjar
This was a different bandit, in a different avatar. He was good looking, had enough guts, and was a womanizer! In totality, he knew how to kill, whether it was a bullet, or his looks! A local dacoit who had kept the government on their toes and knees for ten years was killed in 2005 after much effort and money had been wasted on him.
Gujjar had the audacity to operate from Etawah which was the district of the Chief Minister, and he has caused Mulayam Singh Yadav enough embarrassment.
He had started the trend of “Satellite Gangs” where he, as the gang Leader, would settle at one location, while small satellite gangs would do the kidnapping and the robberies.
He was killed by his own people in a way. Those who supported and helped him were the ones who got him killed. Many of his gang members had become police informers, much to his amazement; he realized it when he was about to be killed. He was unaware of the disloyalty in his own gang and one night, after his gang got him drunk, they left him alone and alerted the Special Task Force. This was the last night of his life and he was killed in a drunken stupor.
Gujjar loved good life – a life of wine, women, mobile phones and limelight. In fact his interview with the local media where he had challenged the then Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav, went against him completely, and a ‘zero tolerance’ policy was framed for him, ultimately leading to his death.
His life was something that would leave many Bollywood actors envious – night binoculars, assault rifles, Ak-47 guns, mobile phones and bulletproof jackets! Amusingly, he would not drink local booze and would sip the best whiskey in town! The most amazing is his astronomy and marriages which will leave you bewildered.
At 23 years of age, Gujjar abducted a 13-year-old girl in a property dispute. This teen fell in love with her abductor and married him. After three years of marriage, Seema Parihar ran away with Gujjar’s mentor and gangster Lala Ram. But Gujjar could not stay single and used his power and money to maxims. He then married a 16-year-old Munni Panday, whom he groomed in crime after he kidnapped her. She eloped away with his cousin Munna Gujjar and this was what resulted in the couple’s death.
Enraged at his misfortunes, Gujjar again married Neelam, a 16-year-old girl, in presence of many locals and police officers at a grand wedding. But six months into this dream marriage, she ran away too and this time with his adopted son!
Many sources claim that his broken marriages led him in to a total mental shout down and while his drinking habits increased day by day, his thinking process was slowed down considerably, leading to his death eventually!
