Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. Forty-three years after bandit Phoolan Devi and her gang perpetrated the Behmai massacre in which 20 people, mostly from the Thakur community, were shot dead to "avenge" her rape, a court here on Wednesday gave life sentence to one of the two surviving accused. India News | First Conviction in 1981 Behmai Massacre by Phoolan Devi's Gang.