Story of their Assassins continues ………….

The first and only shot fired by him got the hoodlum sitting at the rear end of the bike. Not surprisingly—given its muzzle velocity and the short range—the bullet went through his body, then Tyagi’s and finally pierced through the third gangster who was driving the bike. The motorcycle crashed to the ground with its three riders thrown off in a heap. Constable Neeraj Kumar, injured grievously, lay at a distance writhing in pain. He was rushed to the hospital and fortunately survived. The three gangsters, however, were declared dead on arrival at the hospital.Thus Tyagi’s life came to a bloody end, perhaps a fitting culmination to the trail of terror and killings he had unleashed in the plains of north India.

The law finally caught up with MS in September 2016 when he was arrested on the orders of the Patna High Court. Since the prisons in Bihar had earlier failed to keep MS in custody as he had compromised the jail staff, either through intimidation or by lucre, the Supreme Court, in February 2017, on a request made by the Government of Bihar, ordered that he be transferred to Tihar Jail in Delhi.

MS, reportedly a much mellower person now, is cooling his heels in an isolation ward of Tihar. Quite recently, he petitioned the Supreme Court to be moved to the general ward from his solitary confinement. The court dismissed his petition, asking him to submit his request to the director general of Tihar Prisons. Nothing more has been heard since. With the sahib (lord) behind bars, in a prison located several hundred kilometres away from his fiefdom and where his writ doesn’t run, Siwan sleeps better. Kidnappings, dacoities and murders are on the decline and the law and order situation is much better. But given the vicissitudes of politics and our criminal justice system, only time will tell how long the sahib and his riyasat (state) are kept away from each other.

Concluded!

Next up :- Goan Rhapsody