India, Feb. 12 -- The surrender ceremony of two big dacoit gangs led by Phoolan Devi and ferocious Ghanshyam Singh was marred today by a slogan-shouting crowd which disapproved of the glorification of dacoits on the occasion.

A large section of the assembled gathering shouted "murdabad" against the State Government as he Director-General of M-P police Mr B. P. Dube got up to speak. A young Lok Dal leader dramatically came up to the dais despite tight security arrangements and shouted into the mike that the police had made money out of the anti-dacoity operations The mike was promptly switched off and the angry man whisked away by security people. Police had to resort to a mild cane-charge to control the angry crowd. When a Delhi news cam...