Lawrence Bishnoi's aide killed inside Delhi's Tihar Jail, say officials

An associate of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi was killed in an attack by rival gang members inside Tihar Jail on Friday evening according to officialsPrince Tewatia 33 was an undertrial prisoner lodged in ward 6 of central jail number 3 which has around 380 inmates they saidAt around 530 pm today Tewatia had an altercation with another inmate Attatur Rehman who is from a rival gang Tewatia attacked him with an improvised weapon and members of both the gangs joined the fight that left four people including Tewatia and Rehman injured a jail official saidThe injured were taken to Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital While three of them are stated to be stable Tewatia was declared dead by the doctors the official saidApart from Rehman Bobby and Vinay sustained injuries in the fightA case was registered and an inquiry by the chief judicial magistrate has been initiated the official saidHe belonged to a middleclass family from Gaziabad and studied till class 12 at a private school in Delhis Chirag Enclave He had two siblings a younger brother and a sister Tewatias father retired from the DDA while his mother is a homemakerAlso read Sanjay Raut gets death threat from Lawrence Bishnoi gangTewatia was previously involved in 16 criminal cases including murder and attempt to murder police saidHe was arrested for the first time in 2010 in a murder case He produced a fake birth certificate in court so that he could be treated as a juvenile but was caught and charged with forgeryWhile inside a jail he came in contact with gangster Rohit Chaudhary in 2013 and joined his gang The following year he came out on bail and started extorting money from cable operators satta operators and builders in south Delhi on the instructions of Chaudhary police said Tewatia was a triggerhappy individual who would not hesitate to open fire at people including his neighbours and even a livein partnerIn January 2015 he shot and injured his three neighbours and in February he shot an advocate in the leg as he had a feud with him In April 2015 he met a woman and entered into a livein relationship with her After a while Tewatia wanted to move out but the woman refused so he shot her in the abdomen police saidIn a road rage incident in January 2016 Tewatia shot a person in the leg When another motorist intervened Tewatia along with his associates Monu and Sunny robbed his car and shot him in the legTewatia was arrested and sent to jail in 2018 The following year he had a fallout with Chaudhary over the sharing of crime proceeds and quit his gang Sometime later he joined Bishnois gang police saidIn 2019 Tewatia was released on parole for his marriage but escaped Later that year in a raid conducted by the Special Cell of Delhi Police he was arrested and sent to judicial custody police saidThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever