According to Sultana, women represent evil temptation and could bring bad luck but the thought of Putlibai in contact without anyone else other than him had swept him over.
Stories of her exploits were told and retold, songs were written about her life, and villagers who claimed to have seen her took pride in describing every little detail they could remember of their encounter with the "reincarnation of Kali."
After Putli was injured in a gun battle with the police one day, her left arm was amputated at the elbow by a village doctor.
During the period of her recovery, Kalla assured that on each raid one of his men could be dressed as a woman, in a sari, in order to flout police rumors that she had been killed.
A few months later., Putli was seen in villages again, wielding a rifle, held steady with her left arm, her aim still accurate.
A police constable, injured in a gun battle, stated that he had been shot by Putli, whom he recognized, and added that she had lost half her left arm.
She has been shot dead, trying to escape a police ambush by crossing the Kunwari River, which runs parallel to the Chambal.