Notorious gangster Vinay Tyagi has died while undergoing treatment for gunshot wounds at AIIMS Rishikesh. The Meerut history-sheeter was injured during an attack by miscreants on a bike while he was being taken to Laksar court on Wednesday, December 24.
Tyagi was being taken to the Laksar court via the Haridwar-Laksar highway overbridge, by six policemen who were acoompanying him in a Tata Sumo police vehicle.
The miscreants who were on a bike, took advantage of the traffic jam in the middle of the flyover bridge to open fire at the vehicle. The criminals were masked and they fled the scene. Viay Tyagi was shot at three times. Two policemen were also injured.
Tyagi was shot in the chest, arm and neck. AIIMS PRO Sriloy Mohanty confirmed Vinay Tyagi's death at around 7 am on Saturday. Postmortem proceedings are underway according to Uttarakhand police.
Police have arrested the two attackers, Sunny Yadav and Ajay who are both residents of Kashipur. The main accused Sunny, alias Shera, confessed to shooting Tyagi with the intention to kill. They said that they targetted the man due to a financial dispute. Tyagi had reportedly refused to pay a sum of money to him.
Who is Vinay Tyagi?
Vinay Tyagi is known for having a very long history of criminal records in the state. He is said to have been associated with the notorious Sunil Rathi gang. Nearly 60 criminal cases have been registered against him which included murder, extortion, arms smuggling, kidnapping and theft.
A month ago,Tyagi was involved in a high-profile theft case, which involved crores of rupees. Tyagi had robbed a major Meerut-Ghaziabad National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) contractor of a large amount of cash, several kilograms of gold, jewellery and documents related to Benami properties belonging to the man.
The items were hidden in Dehradun inside a car, which was also stolen.
Dehrdun police had arrested Tyagi and his wife in relation to the case and recovered the massive haul of stolen goods. A case of fraud involving Rs 1 crore was also filed against them at the Laksar police station.
Tyagi's sister, Seema, has now come out to make several allegations after his death. She claimed that the approximately Rs 750 crore stolen from Dehradun were illegal earnings and that the NHAI contractor had hidden it at the home of a doctor friend to avoid action by the Enforcement Directorate who were about to raid his property.
Seema said that Vinay became aware of the secret black money and stole the goods with the help of the doctor friend. She said that he was planning to hand the goods over to the ED, over his long standing rivalry with the contractor.
Vinay Tyagi’s family has also claimed the police conspired in his death, reported Nav Bharat Times.
They said that Vinay was killed to prevent him from making a revelation to the ED or any other central agency about the illegal money aquired by the NHAI contractor. Speculations are rife that the Uttarakhand police conspired in his death to prevent the documents from being handed over to the Enforcement Directorate.
According to sources, the police could not recover the Benami property documents, which were worth crores.