Amarmani Tripathi

Personal life

The convicted murderer Amarmani is husband of convicted murderer Madhumati Tripathi. He is also the father of Amanmani tripathi who has been chargesheeted by CBI for the murder of his own wife.

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.

Madhumita Shukla murder

On 9 May 2003, Madhumita Shukla, a 24-year-old budding poet and allegedly the lover of Amarmani, was gunned down at close range by two visitors in her two-room apartment in Lucknow's Paper Mill Colony. She was seven months pregnant at the time The investigation of the case was taken up by SHO of PS Mahanagar, Lucknow Mr. Ajay Kumar Chaturvedi. He collected all relevant information as diary of discesed, provided shelter to alone witness a servant and took the investigation into the house of Amarmani Tripathi. Later for not toing the line of government, govt transferred investigation to CB CID. In June 2003, the chief investigator in the case, Mahendra Lalka (IPS 1967), was suspended, by the State Government and then reinstated within 45 days as the government realised that Mr. Lalka was right and also Mr. Lalka was backed by the IAS and IPS lobby both from the state and center. A senior Indian Police Service officer claimed that Mayawati had ordered the suspension of state CID Director General Mahendra Lalka simply because he refused give Tripathi a clean chit.

The case was subsequently transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation, and Amarmani was arrested in September 2003. Phone calls relating to the murder were traced to Tripathi's wife Madhumani in Gorakhpur, who was also subsequently convicted for the murder.

Various attempts at getting bail were turned down, especially based on the DNA evidence of a relationship which he had initially denied. Amarmani and his wife were lodged in Gorakhpur jail, where they were found to be holding rock concerts. While still in jail, Tripathi won in the U.P. Assembly Elections, 2007 as an Independent candidate. He won the Lakshmipur Constituency seat in Mahrajganj District, defeating nearest rival Kaushal Kishore of the Rashtriya Janata Dal by a margin of nearly 20 thousand votes (12%)

In March 2007, the legal proceedings were moved to a specialized court in Dehradun. There, Tripathi, his spouse, and three additional individuals were found guilty of the murder of Madhumita Shukla on 24 October 2007. The court imposed a life sentence on Amarmani, his wife Madhumani, and two other culprits involved in the case.

In 2012, Amarmani's son Amanmani Tripathi was given a ticket by Samajwadi Party for contesting in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, 2012. Amarmani managed to record a video from jail send out a message to the constituency of Nautanwa (merged with Lakshmipur after delimitation). Despite a wave in favour of SP, Amanmani lost to Kaushal Kishore of Indian National Congress by a margin of 4%.

The son of murder convict Amarmani and his murder convict wife, Amanmani was also chargesheeted by CBI in February 2017 for murdering his wife by strangulation.