New Delhi, October 23
At a hearing after 90 days of the incident, the Delhi Police today chargesheeted 11 persons in connection with the sensational day light murder of Samajwadi Party MP Phoolen Devi outside her residence at 44 Ashoka Road on July 25.

In the charge sheet submitted before Metropolitan Magistrate Mahesh Chander Gupta in Patiala House court, the police filed a case against Sher Singh Rana, alias Pankaj, Dhan Prakash, alias Vicky, Shekhar, Rajbir, Rajinder, Amit Rathi, Praveen Mittal, Keshav Chauhan, Pradeep, Surinder Singh alias Suri, and Vijay, brother of the prime accused.

Two persons, Mustaqeem, who reportedly supplied weapons to the prime accused, and Shravan, who worked in liquor shop of Sher Singh Rana in Roorkee, were also chargesheeted. Surender Singh, father of the prime accused, was not chargesheeted as the police has no evidence to prove his involvement in the case.

All accused were booked under Section 302, IPC, read with criminal conspiracy for killing the Samajwadi Party MP. They have also been charged with attempting to murder her security guard, Balwinder Singh.

The charge sheet consisted of 722 pages mentioning the names of 172 witnesses and 38 photographs of the scene of the murder. Five of these, Kanchan, PSO of Phoolan Devi, Balwinder, two passers-by and Keshav Chauhan were eyewitnesses. Kanchan got the FIR registered. They admitted that they had seen Phoolan Devi being shot dead.

The charge sheet also mentions that two revolvers were recovered from the Maruti car, which was left by the prime accused on the Pandit Pant Marg and two countrymade revolvers were recovered from the garage of the slain MP.

The charge sheet, which has no mention of any political involvement in the case, confirmed that four bullets were recovered from the body of Phoolan Devi who was shot dead from point- blank range. The forensic report has also confirmed that the bullets were fired from the revolver of Sher Singh Rana.

In his statement to the police, Sher Singh Rana told that it was his political ambition which forced him to murder Phoolan Devi. He wanted to become a leader of the Thakur community after taking the revenge of Behmai massacre where the then bandit queen Phoolan Devi had gunned down a number of Thakurs. He was once arrested in liquor case in 1996, the charge sheet said.

He made friends with Uma Kashyap, chief of the Eklvya Sena in Roorkee, to gain access to Phoolan Devi’s house in New Delhi, the most secure area in the country. He brought Uma Kashyap to Delhi in his Maruti car on July 24. The next day along with Dhan Prakash alias Vicky, he gunned down Phoolan Devi. He sped away in his green-coloured Maruti car driven by Shekhar. Rajbir was waiting near Gole Dakhana to take them to Meerut in his car. But he did not succeed in his plan.

While fleeing from the spot, Sher Singh Rana and his accomplices could not see Rajbir. They left their vehicle on the Pandit Pant Marg and took an auto for ISBT from where they went to Ghaziabad. They were in touch with Rajbir on their mobile who picked them up from Ghaziabad.