Madhumita Shukla murder case: SC refuses to stay release of ex-UP minister Amarmani Tripathi
Supreme Court on Friday refused to stay former Uttar Pradesh legislator Amarmani Tripathi's release from jail, a day after the state government ordered his and his wife Madhumani Tripathi's premature release owing to «good conduct» even as the couple remains admitted in a Gorakhpur hospital for treatment.
The couple had been serving life imprisonment for their role in the sensational murder of poetess Madhumita Shukla in 2003. Tripathi was a minister at the time in then-chief minister Mayawati's cabinet.
Shukla's sister, Nidhi Shukla, has questioned the release on «good conduct» and claimed the couple have been lodged in the BRD Medical College in Gorakhpur for the past 10 years and that she had RTI information to prove this.
Madhumani got herself transferred to Gorakhpur jail in 2008 from Dehradun jail and Amarmani followed suit in 2012, according to earlier reports and both have reported to have been in and out of the hospital, spending great lengths of time there for «treatment» for nausea, depression and other ailments.
In 2015, the couple were sent back to Gorakhpur jail after spending two and a half years at the hospital. Amarmani was again admitted in 2018.
