Ghaziabad, Oct 30 (IANS) The wife of Ravindra Tyagi, a criminal killed in a gun battle Thursday with the Ghaziabad police, has alleged that a Uttar Pradesh minister was behind her husband’s “murder”. She did not name the minister.
Deepa, Tyagi’s wife and a gynaecologist by profession, said that false cases had been registered against her husband at the minister’s behest.

“My husband was getting politically strong in the area and had chances of winning the next assembly election from Murad Nagar, which that minister could not tolerate. So he got him killed in an encounter by using the police as his tool,” Deepa said.

She claimed that her husband was first picked up and then shot dead and not killed in a gun battle.

She also claimed that Tyagi never carried any carbine with him, contradicting the

police statment that they recovered the weapon from him. He only had a licensed pistol, she asserted.

Tyagi’s partner Bitto Sardar, who was with him at the time of the shootout, is under police custody, she claimed.

The police had offered a cash reward of Rs.50,000 for Tyagi’s arrest. He was wanted by the police in many criminal cases including rape, loot and murder.

According to the police, the criminal was in a black Honda City car when the shootout took place. Sub Inspector Anil Kaparwan and constable Paramjit Singh, who received bullet injured in the gun battle, were said to be stable at the Yashoda Hospital Friday.

Senior Superintendent of Police Akhil Kumar said: “We will soon register a case into the incident. A post mortem examination has been conducted on his (Tyagi’s) body.”