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.
An MP/MLA court in Uttar Pradesh's Basti district has asked officials concerned to identify and attach properties owned by former minister Amar Mani Tripathi, who has skipped numerous court summons in connection with a 22-year-old kidnapping .