Former minister Amarmani Tripathi and his wife Madhumani were sent back to the District Jail after being discharged from the Baba Raghav Das Medical College in Gorakhpur on Friday. The couple is serving a life sentence awarded for orchestrating the murder of poetess Madhumita Shukla in 2003.
The slain poetess’ sister, Nidhi Shukla took up the matter in the court claiming that the couple was not ill and the recent development is a sequel to her efforts.
“The action has been taken on directions of the government. The report of the medical board of the college was sent to the government,” Principal BRD College RP Sharma said in Gorakhpur on Friday.
Both Amarmani and Madhumani had got themselves admitted to a private ward of BRD Medical College claiming that they were suffering from depression since February 26, 2013.
The trial of the murder of poetess Madhumita Shukla was shifted from UP to Uttarakhand on the request of the victim’s family. The trial court in Dehradun held the couple and three others guilty of murder and conspiracy before slapping a life sentence on them in 2007. lady luck refused to hand out a reprieve to the high-porofile couple even in High Court of Uttarakhand where they appealed. In July 2012, the Uttarakhand HC upheld the life imprisonment and the couple were serving the sentence at Dehradun Jail. Soon after, Madhumani got herself shifted to Gorakhpur hospital citing an ailment in 2008 and Amarmani followed in 2012.
In recent months, Amarmani’s son, Amanmani was in news after his wife Sara was killed in a road mishap in Firozabad. The case is being probed by CBI after her family members alleged that she was murdered.
Earlier, 17 more jailbirds including former SP district chief Gopal Yadav were also sent to the jail from the BRD Medical College.