Amarmani Tripathi

Amarmani Tripathi (born 14 February 1956) is a politician from Eastern Uttar Pradesh. He was an MLA from Lakshmipur, Uttar Pradesh four times. He and his wife were released by UP Government in the Madhumita Shukla murder case in which he conspired to murder. He had earlier been a state Minister in the state of Uttar Pradesh.

Tripathi was arrested in September 2003 in connection with the murder of poet Madhumita Shukla, with whom he allegedly had an affair, and 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.

Personal life Amarmani Tripathi was born on 14 February 1956. He married Madhumani Tripathi.

The investigation of the case was taken up by the SHO of PS Mahanagar, Lucknow Mr. Ajay Kumar Chaturvedi. He collected all relevant information as a diary of the deceased, provided shelter to a lone witness a servant, and took the investigation into the house of Amarmani Tripathi. Later for not towing the government's line, the government transferred the 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 realized 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 to 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, 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 the nearest rival Kaushal Kishore of the Rashtriya Janata Dal by a margin of nearly 20 thousand votes (12%).

In March 2007, the case was transferred to a special court in Dehradun, where Tripathi and his wife along with three others were convicted of the murder of Madhumita Shukla on 24 October 2007. The court has sentenced Amarmani, his wife Madhumani, and two other accused to life imprisonment.

In 2012, Amarmani's son Amanmani Tripathi was given a ticket by Samajwadi Party for contesting the 2012 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections. Amarmani managed to record a video from jail to send out a message to the constituency of Nautanwa (merged with Lakshmipur after delimitation). Despite a wave in favor 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 charge-sheeted by CBI in February 2017 for murdering his wife by strangulation.