From first woman IPS to L-G of Puducherry: The journey of Kiran Bedi
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India’s first woman IPS officer Kiran Bedi was appointed as the lieutenant governor of Puducherry on Sunday. (Raj K Raj/HT File Photo)
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Kiran Bedi was the first woman IPS, coming from the 1972-batch. She served for 35 years before taking voluntary retirement as Director General, Bureau of Police Research and Development in 2007.
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This June 18, 2002 photo shows Bedi with then Delhi chief minister Sheila Dixit during a Delhi Police passing parade function. (S Burmaula//HT File Photo)
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In this Dec 30, 2006, hundreds of policemen converge to learn the nuances of yoga and vipasanna meditation at the police training college organised by Kiran Bedi. (HT File Photo)
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Kiran Bedi introduced several reforms at Tihar Jail to turn it into a model prison. She arranged separate barracks for the hardened criminals, who had been using their time in prison to recruit gang members, sell contraband and extort money. (Sanjay Sharma//HT File Photo)
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A second phase of her public activism started when she plunged right into the centre of the Anna Hazare movement against corruption. ( Virendra Singh Gosain/HT File Photo)
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The 2011 Jan Lokpal movement was led by Anna Hazare with activists like Arvind Kejriwal and Kiran Bedi fighting strongly to bring in Lok Pal Bill. (Ajay Aggarwal//HT File Photo)
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Kiran Bedi along with a little girl offering lime water to the social activist Anna Hazare to break his fast unto death for Jan Lokpal Bill at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi in April 2011.
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The Anna Hazare movement was then systemised by Team Anna, with members like Arvind Kejriwal, Prashant Bhushan and Kiran Bedi spearheading the Jan Lokpal Bill movement. (Arvind Yadav /HT File Photo)
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Bedi introduced several reforms at Tihar Jail, which gained worldwide acclaim and won her the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1994 (Rajesh Kumar/HT File Photo)
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Her social activism and fight against corruption won her national recognition bigger than ever. (Mohd Zakir/HT file photo)
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Bedi won the BJP ticket to contest the Delhi assembly elections in January 2015. Here’s Bedi with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Mohd Zakir/HT file photo)
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BJP had stacked Kiran Bedi directly against Aam Aadmi Party’s Arvind Kejriwal, the same teammate from Team Anna, along with whom she had fought against corruption in 2011. (Vipin Kumar/HT file photo)
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(From left to right) BJP leaders Prabhat Jha ,Satish Upadhyay, Kiran Bedi , Ananth Kumar during released Vision Document 2015 for Delhi assembly election on February 03, 2015. (Arvind Yadav / HT file photo)
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But Kiran Bedi even lost in her constituency. Aam Aadmi Party, led by Arvind Kejriwal, won 67 of the 70 seats. She was even blamed for the BJP’s drubbing. (Raj K Raj/ HT file photo)
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