Notorious gangster Vinay Tyagi has died while undergoing treatment for gunshot wounds at AIIMS Rishikesh. The Uttar Pradesh history-sheeter was injured during an attack by criminals while he was being taken to Laksar court on Wednesday, December 24.
Two bike-borne men had opened fire at the police vehicle transporting Vinay Tyagi to the Laksar court via the Haridwar-Laksar highway overbridge.
The miscreants took advantage of the traffic jam to open fire at the vehicle.
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.
Who is Vinay Tyagi?
Vinay Tyagi is known for having a very long history of criminal records in the state.
He was recently 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.
Dehrdu police had arrested Tyagi and his wife in relation to the case and recovered the massive haul of stolen goods.
Tyagi's sister, Seema, has come out to make several allegations after his death. She claimed that the approximately Rs 750 crore stolen from Dehradun was illegal earnings and that the NHAI contractor had hidden it at the home of a doctor friend in Dehradun to avoid action by the Enforcement Directorate.
Seema said that Vinay became aware of the hidden cargo and stole the goods due to their long standing rivalry and that he was planning to hand it over to the ED.
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 accumulated 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.
