Paan Singh Tomar (1 January 1932 – 1 October 1981) was an Indian soldier, athlete, and dacoit (Baaghi).

[5] He later gained notoriety as a Daku of Chambal Valley, when he resorted to violence after a land feud there.

In late 1981, Tomar was killed in a police encounter, in a village of Bhind district in Madhya Pradesh.

[5] Paan Singh Tomar was born in the small village of Bhidosa, near Porsa, in a Hindu Rajput family,[6] living on banks of the Chambal River, in the erstwhile Tonwarghar district of the princely state of Gwalior, under the rule of the British Raj in India.

What they saw, impressed them and soon Tomar was exempted from his regular duties and was put on the special diet for army sportsmen and enjoyed other perks and benefits.

Tomar would later give an interview to a local newspaper in Gwalior, which may have prompted the administration to start taking his case seriously.

[citation needed] On October 1, 1981, the Circle Inspector Mahendra Pratap Singh Chauhan, and his special task force of 500 policemen, cornered and shot Tomar before leaving him for dead.

1959) is a retired Indian Army subedar who lives in Babina in the Jhansi District of Uttar Pradesh.

It starred Irrfan Khan as Paan Singh Tomar, and Mahie Gill as his wife.