Umed Singh demands apology from Munni Devi

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI, AUG. 7. The husband of Phoolan Devi, Mr. Umed Singh, today threatened to file a defamation suit for Rs. 50 lakhs against Ms. Munni Devi, Phoolan's sister, unless she publicly apologised within three days for ``false allegations'' levelled against him.

Asserting that all charges against him were false, Mr. Singh - who had earlier declared his intention to invest Phoolan's property in a trust ``for upliftment of the downtrodden'' - said: ``Munni was not happy with the decision. Therefore, she levelled charges against me and also alleged my involvement in Phoolan's murder.''

He claimed it was part of a concerted plan to create a dispute in the family and publicise it to project Phoolan's murder as the outcome of a family feud and not a political conspiracy. ``They want to brush aside the real issue so that the main conspirators behind Phoolan's murder are saved.'' ``But I will not rest till the killers are caught,'' Mr. Singh declared. He added that those who were opposed to Phoolan's campaign for special reservation for the very backward classes had conspired to kill her.

2 more arrested

PTI reports:

The Uttaranchal police today arrested two persons who had allegedly forged documents to secure bail for Sher Singh Rana and Ravinder ``fully unravelling'' Rana's gameplan to put an alibi in the case .

``With the arrest of Surinder Singh and Pradip Singh the gameplan of Rana to put an alibi in the case has been fully unravelled,'' the Director-General of police, Uttaranchal, Mr. Ashok Kant Sharan, said. They were arrested this afternoon from Shyampur area of Haridwar.

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