[22] After Anandpal was getting married in 1992 he wanted to become a government servant and later started his cement agency business and a milk dairy.

[23] Anandpal's political ambitions began to take shape in 1999–2000 when he fought the election for Panchayat Samiti member of Sanvrad village.

A police case was lodged against Singh for disrupting government work when he did not let a contender file nomination papers.

[26][27][28][29] In 2012 he was imprisoned, but escaped on 3 September 2015 when he was traveling to Ajmer high security jail from a court hearing.

Three masked people fired on the police van in Khokhar village near Parbatsar, and Singh and two others escaped.

The Rajasthan police stated that Singh and his brothers amassed wealth after entering the world of crime.

The police confiscated nearly 370 bigha of land," said the statement adding that he owned properties in Kuchaman, Jaipur, Hanumangarh, Sikar and Churu.

In a gang-war in Bikaner Central Jail in July 2014, his close aide Balveer Banuda jumped in front of bullets when Anandpal's enemies tried to shoot him.

[1] As a result of this, he got a reputation as a Robin Hood-type figure and had garnered support among some members of lower-income communities for his actions.

[9] His advocates met Governor of Rajasthan, Kalyan Singh, in Jaipur who told them that he is a patriot and that if he will be given security he wanted to surrender.

Singh also wrote to the Chief Justice, stating that the court should conduct a fair investigation under the direction of a judge because Anandpal had not committed any crime.

He added that Anandpal ran away because his companion Balveer Banuda was killed inside the jail by his enemy Raju Theth.