Shillong, May 5: Two days after gangster Tillu Tajpuriya was fatally stabbed by four members of a gang inside Tihar Jail, a video of the horrific attack surfaced on social media.
A CCTV camera inside the high-security jail recorded the attack, which was captured on tape. The attackers were seen using bed sheets as a rope to descend from the first level and then charging into Tajpuriya’s cell on the ground floor to attack him.
The footage, which is an important piece of evidence in the horrifying murder case, shows the first assailant coming down around 6.10 am, followed by the others.
Tajpuriya enters the scene from the opposite end while wearing a red T-shirt and black shorts. He hurries inside a cell and pulls the iron door shut as soon as he spots the first attacker.
Three of the attackers gathered outside Tillu Tajpuriya’s cell after they had all by this point gathered on the ground floor. The fourth assailant, who is somewhat apart from the other gang members, is stopped by someone.
The attackers succeed in breaking into the cell and pulling Tajpuriya outdoors because the door cannot be locked from the inside.
They lead him to a hall area where they repeatedly stab him with homemade weapons.
In the video, other people can be seen attempting to dissuade the assailants.
According to a police investigator looking into the case, criminal Manjeet Mahal has been recognised as one of the men wearing white.
Tillu Tajpuriya is repeatedly stabbed by the assailants with pointed objects until the blood on their hands and the surrounding ground is spattered.
