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.
Supreme Court refused to stay release of former UP minister, Amarmani Tripathi, who changed from BJP to Samajwadi Party to Bahujan Samaj Party, before getting arrested for murdering poet Madhumita Shukla. The poet was only 24 years old and pregnant with Tripathi s child when she was murdered.
Ex-Uttar Pradesh minister Amarmani Tripathi and his wife - convicted in 2007 for killing poet Madhumita Shukla and to be released prison after serving 16+ years of a life term - spent more than half that time out of jail, Ms Shukla's sister said.