An associate of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi was killed in an attack by rival gang members inside Tihar Jail on Friday evening. The deceased is identified as Prince Tewatia (33), an undertrial prisoner lodged in ward 6 of central jail number 3 which has around 380 inmates. In 2019, he was released on parole for his marriage but he escaped. Later that year, in a raid conducted by the Special Cell of Delhi Police, he was arrested again and sent to judicial custody, as per the police.
"At around 5.30 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 said, as quoted by news agency PTI.
"The 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 added.
Injured inmates include Bobby and Vinay. A case was registered while an inquiry by the chief judicial magistrate has been initiated, the official said, as per PTI.
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Who Was Lawrence Bishnoi Aide Prince Tewatia?
Prince Tewatia belonged to a middle-class family from Gaziabad and studied till class 12 at a private school in Delhi's Chirag Enclave. He had two siblings including a younger brother and a sister. Tewatia's father retired from the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) while his mother is a homemaker.
According to the police, Tewatia was previously involved in 16 criminal cases, including murder and attempt to murder.
He was arrested for the first time in 2010 in a murder case. He also produced a fake birth certificate in court in order to be treated as a juvenile but he was caught and charged with forgery.
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, as per the police.
Tewatia is said to be a trigger-happy individual who would not hesitate to open fire at people, including his neighbours and even a live-in partner.
In January 2015, he shot and injured his three neighbours and in February, he shot an advocate in the leg over a feud.
In April 2015, he met a woman and entered into a live-in relationship with her. After a while, Tewatia wanted to move out but the woman refused so he shot her in the abdomen, police said.
In January 2016, Tewatia shot a person in the leg in a road rage incident. When another motorist intervened, he and his associates Monu and Sunny robbed the man's car and shot him in the leg.
Tewatia was again arrested and sent to jail in 2018. After that in 2019, he had a fallout with Chaudhary over the sharing of crime proceeds and quit his gang.
Sometime later, he joined Bishnoi's gang, as per the police.