The case pertains to the 2001 kidnapping of one Dharam Raj Gupta’s son in Basti, and was registered against Tripathi and six others. The boy was later recovered from Tripathi’s residence in Lucknow.
In hushed tones, a neighbour confirmed what I had already heard in Delhi Madhumita was pregnant at the time of her murder and that Amarmani Tripathi, then Minister of State for Stamps and Stationary, was the prime suspect.
Former Uttar Pradesh minister Amarmani Tripathis son and former Independent MLA Aman Mani Tripathi called Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath his guardian and guide with whom he has familial relationship.
The Uttar Pradesh prisons department issued an order for their premature release, citing the state's 2018 policy on remission, since they have completed 16 years of their sentences.
Amarmani Tripathi, a former Uttar Pradesh minister convicted of conspiracy in the 2003 murder of poet Madhumita Shukla, will be released from jail. Tripathi was then a minister in BSP chief Mayawati's government.