Story of their assassins continues......

It was at this stage that he ran into a few local criminals and began to work with them, soon realizing he had a flair for crime. He saw a bright future for himself in the underworld.

A friend he ran into during this period had just been released from Ambala Central Jail. The friend told Tyagi that a certain jail employee had been particularly nasty to him and had abused him sexually. Tyagi was enraged and decided to teach the jailor a lesson. He killed the jailor with his bare hands as the man was leaving the prison complex one evening after completing his shift.

Tyagi’s criminal friends had begun to spread word of his derring-do in the nether world of crime. His next assignment came from the rival of a sugar mill owner, again in Ambala. The rival wanted the mill owner to be eliminated and was prepared to pay Rs 3 lakh for the job. Tyagi did not bat an eyelid and killed the mill owner with a borrowed weapon.

With the money he received, he bought two
Chinese-made pistols and thereafter didn’t need to look elsewhere for weapons.

It wasn’t long before Tyagi decided to form his own gang. He didn’t trust the sort of criminals he had met thus far. He began to motivate his first cousins, some of whom were jobless and wished to make a career in crime.

At this time, he met one Harey Ram Sant, a dreaded criminal from Gopalganj, Bihar, who had come to visit relatives in the Bulandshahr district. Both Tyagi and Sant hit it off well and decided to work together. But destiny had willed otherwise, at least in the short term. The Uttar Pradesh Police caught up with Tyagi in 1995.

To be continued ………….