Amarmani Tripathi is a politician and state minister in the state of Uttar Pradesh. Tripathi has been associated with several parties, most recently the Samajwadi Party under Mulayam Singh Yadav in Uttar Pradesh, India. He was arrested in September 2003 in connection with the murder of poetess Madhumita Shukla, with whom he allegedly had an affair, and who was brutally murdered on May 9, 2003. After investigations revealed that she was carrying a fetus that matched the DNA of Amarmani,[1] the Supreme Court of India rejected his bail plea, and he is currently in jail.
Tripathi is one among many criminal-politicians in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.