Summary:
The marks of axes, swords and gunshots on the main gate have been carefully preserved and can be seen even today. Bijnor: The legend of Sultana daku, a dreaded British era dacoit who was active in Terai region of present-day Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh, continues to reverberate the over 200 years old Jalpur castle in Bijnor’s Najibabad subdivision. “My great grandfather Sibba Singh was a big landowner and was the main occupant of the castle in 1922. Sultana had come to kill Sibba Singh, his granddaughter Omwati Devi and her mother Ram Pyari. Each and every room of the castle was set on fire,” Singh says, while pointing at wooden pillars holding the castle together..