The scrapping of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes has unsettled every Indian citizen’s life. From celebrities to the common public, everybody is trying to find a way to exchange old currency notes for the new ones.
Even a former dreaded dacoit – Malkhan Singh stood in a line outside a SBI branch in Gwalior.
Singh was one of the most feared criminals in the 70s and 80s. There were 94 cases charged against Malkhan Singh and his gang – 18 cases of dacoity, 28 kidnapping, 19 of attempt to murder and 17 cases of murder.
In 1976, Malkhan had got into a blood feud with the Bilao village sarpanch Kailash Narayan. Singh tried to kill the sarpanch with a machine gun.
Fortunately for the sarpanch, he survived six bullets. But, since Narayan survived, Malkhan fled to Jalaun in Uttar Pradesh as he had killed one of Narayan’s men and injured two of them.
In 1983, Malkhan Singh and his men surrendered to Arjun Singh, the then chief minister of Madhya Pradesh.
(Source: News 18)