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Kamdev Singh (also spelt as Kamdeo Singh) was a gangster, smuggler and mafia strongman from Begusarai district of Bihar, India. He was an anti-communist and for the locals of his hometown, he has been called a "Robin Hood" and "God". [1] [2] [3] Kamdev Singh was hired by various politicians for booth capturing. [4] [5] His son is Rajkumar Singh. [6]

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References

  1. Ahmed, Farzand (28 January 2014) [15 May 1980]. "After 20 years of terrorising, Kamdeo Singh lived by the gun and died by it". India Today. Retrieved 2021-04-02.
  2. "Kamdeo Singh: The mafia don of Bihar as elusive as the Yeti". India Today. 19 February 2014 [31 October 1979]. Retrieved 2021-04-02.
  3. स्वरोची, दीपक सिंह (15 September 2020). "सम्राट कामदेव सिंह: बेगूसराय का वो नाम जो माफिया था और मसीहा भी" [Emperor Kamdev Singh: The name of Begusarai which was Mafia and also the Messiah]. Aaj Tak (in Hindi). Retrieved 2021-04-02.
  4. Chaudhary, Pranava K. (14 February 2005). "Where booth capturing was born". The Times of India. Retrieved 2021-04-02.
  5. Vaishnav, Milan (2017-01-24). When Crime Pays: Money and Muscle in Indian Politics. Yale University Press. p. 82. ISBN   978-0-300-22474-0.
  6. Kumar, Rajiv (31 October 2020). "A lot at stake for Left parties in Begusarai". The Times of India. Retrieved 2021-04-02. Raj Kumar, who did his graduation from Delhi University in 1990, has a clean image with no criminal record. However, he is the son of Kamdeo Singh, the most dreaded gangster of the eastern part of India whose smuggling network extended from Nepal to far off Kolkata and Mumbai during the 70s.