Who could have killed Phoolan Devi?
I think it is a deep-rooted conspiracy played out by the government. I say that because if the government wanted — both the central government and the state government — it could have ordered a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the murder. But then, neither the BJP nor the Samajwadi Party nor the Congress party demanded a CBI probe into the killing. Phoolan’s murder was a political assassination. All the parties were afraid of a CBI probe because then their conspiracy would have come to light. The investigation into the case has been deliberately slowed down due to political pressure. When Phoolan died, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and general secretary Amar Singh promised you all help. What happened after that? Both of them were the first ones to call Phoolan a beti [daughter] of the Samajwadi Party. But after calling her a beti, they did not even bother to look us up, her family, even once. And both of them are so selfish that they brought the body of Phoolan