Indian soldier, athlete, and eventually Baaghi Paan Singh Tomar was born on January 1, 1932, and died on October 1, 1981. It was during his time in the Indian Army that his running prowess was identified. In the 1950s and 1960s, he won the national steeplechase championship seven times, and in 1958, he competed for India in the Asian Games. Following his early army retirement, Tomar went back to his hometown. Later on, during a land dispute in Chambal Valley, he became well-known as a rebel of that region. Tomar was slain in a police confrontation in a Madhya Pradesh village located in the Bhind district at the end of 1981.

Paan Singh Tomar Biography

Full Name	Paan Singh tomar
Date of birth	January 1, 1932
Date of Death	October 1, 1981
Birthplace	Bhidosa, Tonwagarh District
Age	49 years
Gender	Male
Nationality	Indian
Height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m
Profession	Indian Army

Paan Singh Age

Paan Singh Tomar Age is 49 years at death time (1 January 1932 – 1 October 1981) was an Indian soldier, athlete, and later, Baaghi (rebel/outlaw)

Paan Singh family

Souram Singh Tomar, a 1959-born Indian Army subedar who is retired, is the son of Paan Singh and resides in Babina, in the Jhansi District of Uttar Pradesh. He relocated there in order to escape Bhidosa’s brutality.

Who is Paan Singh Tomar

Paan Singh Tomar (1 January 1932 – 1 October 1981) was an Indian soldier, athlete, and later, Baaghi (rebel/outlaw). He served in the Indian Army, where his talent for running was discovered. He was a seven-time national steeplechase champion in the 1950s and 1960s, and represented India at the 1958 Asian Games.

Paan Singh Tomar Early life

During the British Raj, Paan Singh Tomar was born into a Hindu Rajput family on the banks of the Chambal River in the former Tonwarghar region of the princely state of Gwalior. Bhidosa is a small village close to Porsa. The majority of the rich agricultural land in and around the Bhidosa region is owned by a branch of the Tomar family, which was founded by Tomar’s father, Eashwari Singh Tomar, whose younger brother Dayaram Singh Tomar. After being duped out of land in a dubious land dispute, Tomar went on to murder Babbu Singh Tomar, his nephew and Dayaram Singh Tomar’s grandson, in 1977.

Paan Singh Tomar Army Career

Paan Singh Tomar was a subedar of the Bengal Engineer Group’s 51st Engineer Regiment, located at Roorkee. In the 1950s and 1960s, he was a national-ranking athlete and a champion sportsman. According to legend, he was initiated into serious running following a disagreement. Tomar had gotten into a fight with one of his instructors shortly after he had joined his battalion. Tomar was made to run many laps around the parade ground as punishment. The other policemen’ eyes followed him as he ran. Their observations left them impressed, and before long Tomar was released from his regular responsibilities, placed on a special diet intended for army athletes, and granted further privileges.

Paan Singh Tomar Sports Career

At the Tokyo, Japan, Asian Games in 1958, he competed on behalf of India. Tomar first had no interest in steeplechase running, but he was introduced to it while serving in the military. He went on to win the steeplechasing national championship for seven years. Ten years passed with his 3000-meter steeplechase national record of 9 minutes and 2 seconds standing. Because of his sporting career, which concluded in 1972, the army refused to let him participate in the 1962 Sino-Indian War and the 1965 Indo-Pakistani War.

Paan Singh Tomar Movie

Paan Singh Tomar’ was a biographical film based on the true story of an athlete Paan Singh Tomar. He was a soldier in Indian Army and also won Gold Medal at the Indian National Games, but was eventually forced to become a notorious bandit. Irrfan Khan essayed the role of Paan Singh Tomar.

Made on a shoestring budget of ₹45 million (US$560,000), Paan Singh Tomar premiered at the London Film Festival in 2010. Two years later it was released in domestic theatres on 2 March 2012 and was a hit at the box office, with worldwide gross of ₹201.80 million (US$2.5 million).

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Paan Singh Retirement

In 1977, Tomar retired and went back to Bhidosa village. He and his nephews Jandel Singh, Havaldar Singh, and Babbu Singh Tomar got into a land dispute. Babbu Singh Tomar was the leader of the 200-person extended Tomar family and a wealthy landowner with seven registered firearms.[10] In order to resolve the conflict, Paan Singh was ordered to contribute ₹3,000 to Babbu Singh Tomar and his siblings in order to retain his own land during a panchayat (congregational conference) with the collector. Tomar complied, but Balwant Singh Tomar, his own nephew, took exception at the deceit. The collector said he will be back in fifteen days. Meanwhile, Babbu Singh Tomar arrived at Tomar’s residence and attacked his mother, who was 95 years old and living alone at the time. the moment. When Tomar’s mother saw him again, she asked him to exact retribution and give her back her honor by the next morning. Armed with weapons, Balwant and Tomar went to the fields and discovered Babbu Singh. Then Tomar opened fire on Babbu Singh, who had been injured multiple times but had managed to run for almost a kilometer before collapsing. It’s possible that Tomar’s interview with a Gwalior local newspaper later on made the administration take his situation more seriously. A ₹10,000 bounty was placed at that moment on his head. In the interview, he declared that he had no desire to murder the eight villagers whose informant killed his older brother, Matadin Singh Tomar. But he was unable to halt his nephew Balwant, the son of Matadin.

Paan Singh Death

Tomar was shot and left for dead on October 1, 1981, by Circle Inspector Mahendra Pratap Singh Chauhan and his 500-strong special task group after they surrounded him. His squad lost fourteen more people in addition to him. Over twelve hours passed during the gunfight and standoff. Tomar’s prejudiced attitude had infuriated one of the village Dalits, Motiram Jatav, who had informed Chauhan of Tomar’s coming.

Tomar was shot while still alive, according to newspaper accounts, and he was pleading for water, saying, “Any Rajput here who could please give me some water?”With a bottle of water in hand, Havildar Tribhuwan Singh began to approach Tomar when Circle Inspector Chauhan said, “Tribhuwan, dacoits have no caste.” He was abandoned to perish.

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