New Delhi: Eighty police officers of Delhi’s Tihar Jail have been transferred after the brazen murder of gangster Tillu Tajpuriya inside the prison by his rivals.
Among these officers were five deputy superintendents, nine assistant superintendents, eight head wardens and 50 wardens, according to prison sources quoted by news agency ANI.
Tajpuriya, 33, was killed in a knife attack on 2 May and the assault was caught live on CCTV in the high-security jail. It also showed security personnel witnessing the act without intervening.
On Thursday, the Delhi High Court questioned jail authorities about the delay in responding to the brutal attack.
Justice Jasmeet Singh said: “What bothers me is that it is watched on CCTV cameras. How can the police take so much time that it cannot be stopped while the incident is happening.”
“It shakes my judicial conscience,” the judge added.
The high court was hearing a petition filed by Tajpuriya’s father and brother seeking a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation into the murder.
Tajpuriya was allegedly killed by the notorious Gogi gang, four of whom cut two iron grills to reach him, and stabbed him 40 to 50 times. Also inmates, the attackers — Deepak alias Titar, Yogesh alias Tunda, Rajesh and Riyaz Khan — apparently used bed sheets to rappel down to Tajpuriya’s ground-floor ward around 6.15 am that morning.
Tajpuriya was an accused in the 2021 Rohini court shootout in which gangster Jitender Gogi was killed.