How Ranga died

A new book on Tihar Jail has shocking details of how the premier prison in the national capital has been functioning. In Black Warrant (Roli Books), narrator Sunil Gupta, Tihar jailer, has given a graphic account of the January 31,

1982, hanging of two dreaded criminals — Ranga-Billa who had kidnapped, raped and murdered 16year-old Geeta Chopra and her younger brother Sanjay in New Delhi. Incredible as it may sound, Gupta told co-author Sunetra Choudhury how Ranga had actually survived hanging at Tihar. A constable was asked to jump into the well of “Phansi Kothi” to pull the condemned