Amarmani Tripathi
Amarmani Tripathi is an influential politician from Eastern Uttar Pradesh. He has been a MLA from Nautanwa, Uttar Pradesh three times. He is currently serving a life sentence in the Madhumita Shukla murder case with alleged conspiracy to murder. He had earlier been a cabinet Minister in the state of Uttar Pradesh with the Samajwadi Party under Mulayam Singh Yadav.
Tripathi was arrested in September 2003 in connection with the murder of poet Madhumita Shukla, with whom he allegedly
had an affair, and who was murdered on 9 May 2003. The Post-Mortem report of Madhumita revealed that she was carrying a foetus that matched the DNA of Amarmani, and he and his wife
Madhumani Tripathi were sentenced to life imprisonment in October 2007.
Criminal career
Tripathi was an associate to Hari Shankar Tiwari, a long time MLA from the
Indian National Congress.
After joining politics,
Tripathi was instrumental in several large shifts of
allegiance involving dozens of MPs, thus influencing the
formation of several governments in
Uttar Pradesh. He has been a member of the
Indian National Congress, Bahujan Samaj Party,
and the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was
Minister of State for Institutional Finance in the Rajnath Singh-led BJP government in 2001, but was dismissed in
December that year, after the kidnappers
of Rahul Madesia, the 15-year-old son of a businessman in Basti in eastern Uttar Pradesh, told the police that Tripathi had provided them the bungalow in Lucknow from where they were arrested.
