26-Year-Old Convict Hangs Self At Delhi's Tihar Jail

A 26-year-old convict lodged in Tihar jail reportedly committed suicide by hanging himself inside the washroom of his barrack in the wee hours on Tuesday.

The deceased was identified as Javed. He was convicted by the Court of Additional Sessions Judge in a robbery case in Delhi's Malviya Nagar in 2016.

He was lodged in jail number 8-9 and allegedly took his life by hanging om the the common toilet area of the enclosure for inmates.

A judicial probe is going on in his case.

The incident comes amid an ongoing investigation into the death of jailed gangster Tillu Tajpuriya.

Tajpuriya, whose real name was Sunil Balyan, leader of Delhi's Tillu gang, was killed on May 2, allegedly by four members of the rival Gogi gang inside a high-security ward of Tihar prison.

He was a prime accused in the infamous Rohini court shoot-out of September 2021, where two men gunned down Tajpuriya's arch-rival Jitender Mann alias Gogi, the then leader of the Gogi gang.

The CCTV footage of the incident, which went viral on social media, showed several jailed inmates brutally assaulting the gangster to death with multiple stabbings in front of uniformed personnel, who did not intervene.

Tajpuriya, a resident of Delhi who headed the infamous Tillu gang, was arrested in 2016 for multiple crimes and had been in jail ever since.