The post-mortem report of Madhumita revealed that she was carrying a foetus that matched the DNA of Amarmani,[1] and he and his wife Madhumani Tripathi were sentenced to life imprisonment in October 2007.
After entering 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 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 with the bungalow in Lucknow from where they were arrested.
He unsuccessfully contested from Lakshmipur Vidhan Sabha of Uttar Pradesh in 1980 but lost to Virendra Pratap Shahi who was also associated with the state underworld and was a big name in U.P.
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.
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.
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.
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%).