Phoolan Devi murder accused nabbed

Sher Singh Rana was arrested in Kolkata, two years after he escaped from high-security Tihar Jail.

The main accused in the Phoolan Devi murder case, Sher Singh Rana, was arrested in Kolkata, two years after he escaped from high-security Tihar Jail in the national capital, police sources said in Kolkata on Tuesday.

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Rana was arrested in Kolkata on Monday night and was being brought to New Delhi where he would be produced in a court, the sources said.

Bandit-turned-politician Phoolan Devi was killed outside her residence in New Delhi in July, 2001.