Nirbhay Gujjar


Nirbhay Singh Gurjar was an Indian criminal and one of the last dacoits of the Chambal and known as the Last Lion of Chambal. He terrorized the Chambal ravines in India, the lawless zone at the cusp of two states Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh for one and three decade

Life

Nirbhay Singh Gurjar was born in Panchdeora village of Jalaun district, Uttar Pradesh and died on 7 November 2005 in Etawah, India. He married Seema Parihar, who eventually became a politician.

Dacoity career

He was said to run a parallel government in about 40 villages in the Chakranagar area of Uttar Pradesh and slept only two hours a day.
With as many as 205 criminal cases of murder, robbery, kidnapping. were registered in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh against him over a period of 30 years.
With this fatwa Sarpanch, Member of Legislative Assembly and Member of Parliament were elected
Gurjar carried a bounty reward of provided by the Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh police.
He reportedly had AK-47 assault rifles, shotguns, bulletproof jackets, night-vision binoculars and mobile phones at his disposal.

Help to ASI

According to the Regional Director of the Archaeological Survey of India, Mr.K. K. Muhammed,
Nirbhay Singh Gurjar and his gang provided much help to Archaeological Survey of India for the restoration of Bateshwar Hindu temples, Madhya Pradesh, that were constructed during the Gurjara-Pratihara empire between 8th to 11th century.

Film

Indian Bollywood film director Krishna Mishra also made a Hindi movie named as Beehad - The Ravine, which starred Vikas Shrivastav. A real-life take on Nirbhay Singh Gujjar's life – journeying with him from 1975.

Indian Politics

In August 2005 he had expressed his desire to surrender before Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav and join Indian politics.