New Delhi: The murder of Prince Tewatia inside the Tihar jail on Friday has revived the grim memories of similar murders at the high security jail in the past. Tewatia, who was associated with the Lawrence Bishnoi gang was stabbed with a knife multiple times on Friday afternoon at Tihar Jail No. 3 where he was lodged.
He was taken to the hospital where doctors declared him brought dead. This is not the first time such an incident at Tihar jail.
Criminal incidents at Tihar jail: Last year, on 15 Dec. criminal Dharamveer died in suspicious circumstances at the jail. Earlier, on 9 July 2022, a prisoner Rajesh was attacked with a knife by other prisoners. The prisoner, however had a close shave in the attack. In the month of May last year, there was a clash between the prisoners and the assistant superintendent of the jail, Avnish Tomar, who came to intervene, was also attacked by the prisoners, in which he was injured.
In 2021, gangster Ankit Gurjar was also murdered in the same jail number 3 in which Prince Tewatia was killed on Friday. According to the jail sources, last month on Mar. 9, the jail administration along with the police force raided the jail. During the raid, 23 surgical blades, drugs, mobiles and many other items were recovered from the prisoners, sources said.
Prince's enmity with gangster Rohit Chowdhary: It is said that Prince Tewatia had enmity with gangster Rohit Chowdhary, who was lodged in Tihar Jail. Prince, a resident of Khanpur area of South Delhi, had studied till 10th standard. It is said that his father used to work in DDA and had enmity with someone.
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As per sources, Prince came on the radar of the police when in the year 2010, he killed the man who was enemies with his father after which Ambedkar Nagar police arrested him. Police said that in a bid to prove himself a minor, Prince had produced a fake birth certificate for which a case of forgery was registered against him.
In the year 2013, he came in contact with gangster Rohit Chaudhary in jail. On the instructions of Rohit Chaudhary, Prince started collecting extortion money from cable operators and builders.
Murder incident in Wazirabad: Prince took parole and absconded to get married in the year 2019, but in Oct. the same year, Prince was injured after shot in the leg during an encounter with the Special Cell of police which arrested him. After being in jail for seven months, Prince came out of jail on interim bail in 2020 and made a fake report of having contracted COVID-19 to increase his parole.
A case of forgery was again registered against him for the crime. Later, he escaped by after securing a parole and carried out a murder in Wazirabad area.
Bail in the name of wife's operation: In Sept. 2021, Prince took bail from the High Court in the name of his wife's operation and once again escaped, but in October 2021, the Crime Branch arrested him again. He came out on parole in Aug. 2022 and carried out the incident of robbing a businessman at gunpoint along with his accomplices in Delhi's Cantt area.
Prince was caught by the Crime Branch in Dec. 2022 along with a consignment of arms.
