A museum on Dacoits will come up at hind in Madhya Pradesh’s Chambal belt. The region had been the home of the most dreaded dacoits of the country.
Key Points
- The museum will come up to highlight the sacrifices made by the police while fighting with the decoits in the region.
- A tape recorder that belonged to Nirbhay Gujjar, the gun used by Phoolan Devi, chains used to tie captives, letters with ransom demands, and stills from the making of Chambal ke Daaku, a Bollywood movie all will be a part of the museum.
- The museum will display at least 2,000 digitized police records and material compiled over the past five decades chronicling the crimes of loot, murder, and kidnapping carried out by these decoits.
- The museum will be set up in four rooms at the Bhind Police headquarters.
- The museum will also showcase the images of the 28 policemen who were martyred in fights with dacoits, 30 who won gallantry awards, and several others who were given out-of-turn promotions.
- The museum will highlight how the crimes done by these dacoits, who identify themselves as baaghis (rebels), have impacted society and the youth.
- The museum is being set up with the help of more than Rs 3 lakh collected as donations from 26 police stations.
- The museum will have four Smart TVs that will play videos narrating stories of kidnappings, with families of victims explaining how their lives were scarred.
- As per the Bhind Police, almost 98% of the kidnappings in the region by dacoits were done in rural areas where people had to sell their lands to give the ransom amount.
With this museum, the police are also looking towards developing a tourism route showing MJS college where Phoolan Devi surrendered and the spot where dacoit Paan Singh Tomar died in a police encounter.
