Gangster Tillu Tajpuriya, Accused in Delhi’s Rohini Court Shootout, Killed In Tihar Jail

Jailed gangster Tillu Tajpuriya, an accused in the Rohini court shootout, was killed in a morning attack by rivals inside Tihar Jail

New Delhi: Jailed gangster Tillu Tajpuriya, an accused in the Rohini court shootout, was killed in a morning attack by rivals inside Tihar Jail, officials said on Tuesday. According to prison officials, the incident took place around 6.30 am. He was taken to Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital where he was declared dead.

Tihar Jail Authority said that Tillu Tajpuria was lodged in the ground floor of High Risk Ward. He was attacked by four inmates — Deepak alias Titar, Yogesh alias Tunda, Rajesh and Riyaz Khan — who were lodged in the first floor of the same Ward.

The police said that a prisoner named Yogesh Tunda, who was lodged in Jail No. 8 and other members of the rival gang attacked Tillu, who was lodged in Jail No. 9 with an iron grill. “Yogesh alias Tunda and Deepak alias Teetar attacked Tillu Tajpuriya by breaking the iron grills of the ward which separated both gangs in the same ward,” the official said.

The killers are said to be members of the Jitender Gogi gang, a notorious gangster who was shot dead in the Rohini Court Complex in 2021. Tillu is said to be behind that attack.

“Today morning at around 7 a.m., an information was received from the DDU Hospital regarding two UTPs (under trial prisoners) who were brought to the DDU Hospital from Tihar Jail. One of them, Sunil alias Tillu, was brought in an unconscious state. He was later declared brought dead.

“Another person, Rohit, is undergoing treatment and is out of danger,” said the West District Police.

Recently Tillu’s name had cropped up during the investigation of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in a terror case.

On September 24 in 2022, two shooters shot and killed Jitendra Gogi in Rohini Court No. 207 during a shootout. According to reports, in September last year, a day before the Rohini shootout, (shooters) Umang and Jagdeep took weapons from a crook named Rakesh Tajpuria in Murthal. “Then on the same day, Umang and Jagdeep took the dress of lawyers from a person near AIIMS.