Editing Phoolan Devi (section)

===Surrender===
After the massacre, Phoolan Devi remained on the run and was nearly caught by the police on 31 March 1981.<ref name="QoD" />{{rp|335}} Her mother was held for five months in [[Kalpi]] prison to pressure Phoolan Devi to give herself up.<ref name="Moxham-Chapter5" /> In 1983, Phoolan Devi surrendered to the authorities after long negotiations led by Rajendra Chaturvedi, a police officer from [[Bhind]] who gained the trust of local dacoits after arresting [[Malkhan Singh Rajpoot]]. Dressed in a police uniform and wearing a red bandanna on her head, she bowed before representations of the goddess Durga and [[Mahatma Gandhi]], then [[Prostration|prostrated]] herself in front of [[Arjun Singh (Madhya Pradesh politician)|Arjun Singh]], the [[List of chief ministers of Madhya Pradesh|Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh]], with approximately 8,000 people watching.<ref name="Rajan">{{cite book |last1=Rajan |first1=Rajeswari Sunder |title=The Scandal of the State: Women, Law, and Citizenship in Postcolonial India |date=2003 |publisher=Duke University |location=Durham, North Carolina, US |doi=10.2307/j.ctv1198tw9 |jstor=j.ctv1198tw9 |isbn=978-0-8223-3035-6 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1198tw9 |access-date=16 November 2023 |archive-date=16 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231116154344/https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1198tw9 |url-status=live }}</ref>{{rp|222}}<ref name="Atlantic" /> Phoolan Devi had set conditions regarding her surrender, which included: no death penalty for anyone from her gang; a maximum custodial sentence of eight years; no use of handcuffs; being imprisoned as a group; being imprisoned in [[Madhya Pradesh]] and not Uttar Pradesh; her family being given land with space for her goat and cow; and her brother getting a government job.<ref name="Rajan"/>{{rp|229}}<ref name="Atlantic" /> She and seven men, including Man Singh, surrendered.<ref name="Sen" />{{rp|215}} Mala Sen records that the male journalists gathered in Bhind to watch her surrender were unimpressed with her plain appearance.<ref name="Sen" />{{rp|218}} 

Phoolan Devi faced the 48 criminal charges<ref name="News9">{{cite news |title=Phoolan Devi death anniversary: Lesser-known facts about the 'Bandit Queen' |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |url=https://www.news9live.com/knowledge/phoolan-devi-death-anniversary-lesser-known-facts-about-the-bandit-queen-184888 |access-date=7 May 2023 |work=News9live |date=25 July 2022 |archive-date=12 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220812000404/https://www.news9live.com/knowledge/phoolan-devi-death-anniversary-lesser-known-facts-about-the-bandit-queen-184888 |url-status=live }}</ref> and the gang was incarcerated at [[Gwalior]], in Madhya Pradesh. Despite the prior agreement that she would not spend more than eight years in prison, she spent over ten years on remand.<ref name="QoD">{{cite book |last1=Singh |first1=Khushwant |editor1-last=Ashraf |editor1-first=Saad |title=Penguin book of Indian journeys |pages=322–335 |date=2004 |publisher=Penguin Books |location=India |isbn=978-0-14-100764-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BZznRtnus7gC |language=en |chapter=Phoolan Devi, queen of dacoits |access-date=21 December 2022 |archive-date=12 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230112023535/https://books.google.com/books?id=BZznRtnus7gC |url-status=live }}</ref>{{rp|322}} During this time, she had tuberculosis and was diagnosed with two stomach tumours.<ref name="Moxham-Chapter2">{{cite book |last1=Moxham |first1=Roy |title=Outlaw: India's Bandit Queen and me |date=2010 |publisher=Rider| location=London |isbn=978-1-84604-182-2 |chapter=Chapter 2 |edition=Ebook}}</ref> Whilst receiving hospital treatment, she received a [[hysterectomy]] without her consent.<ref name="Telegraph-obit" /> The others, including Man Singh, agreed to trials in Uttar Pradesh and were all acquitted, but Phoolan Devi refused to make a deal and remained convinced she would be murdered if she went there.<ref name="Atlantic" />