Munna Bajrangi

Munna Bajrangi or Prem Prakash Singh (2 June 1967 – 9 July 2018) was an Indian politician, a known contract killer and a gang leader from Eastern Uttar Pradesh.

They soon came into conflict with Brijesh Singh, another established ganglord who worked together with politician Krishnanand Rai of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

[12] CBI later identified Vishwas Nepali, Sanjeev Maheshwari, Rakesh Pandey and Ramu Mallah as the other members of the attacking team.

In 2012, while imprisoned in Tihar jail with the trial proceeding ongoing,[14] Bajrangi fought in the 2012 Uttar Pradesh Legislative elections from Mariyahu as a joint candidate of the Apna Dal and the Peace Party.

In the early hours of Monday, 9 July 2018, at around 5:30 am he was shot in the head inside the jail premises by an inmate, another gangster named Sunil Rathi.

[15] The Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath, reacted by ordering a judicial inquiry and suspending jail officials.