A friend, previously imprisoned along with Tajpuriya at Tihar jail, said Tajpuriya never wanted his family to visit him in jail and kept to himself. “When I called him, he would tell me that he was doing well. For his close aides and relatives, he is a martyr,” he said.
Since 2013, the two men and their gangs allegedly targeted each other over the next decade in their bid to assert area dominance. Their rivalry spawned several gang wars that allegedly claimed more than 22 lives including theirs said police.