Amarmani's arrest spells trouble for wife

LUCKNOW: The arrest of Amarmani Tripathi in the Madhumita murder case by the Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI) spells trouble for his wife Madhumani also. There are indications she too could be arrested any time now.
According to information, the witnesses are willing to part with valuable information in the high profile murder. On Monday, Amarmani was remanded in judicial custody for 14 days.
Sources in the CBI said that at least three key witnesses and two important co-accused are willing to turn CBI approvers.They have submitted written complaints that Amarmani was threatening them with dire consequences and hence did not provide the investigators details of the murder. They were being terrorised by Amarmani. Reports of the former minister having allegedly eliminated one of the assailants of Madhumita made these witnesses fearful and develop cold feet.
As the witnesses and the co-accused who were ready to turn approvers were seen to be withdrawing, it became necessary for the CBI to arrest Amarmani. Sources said that a high-level meeting of the CBI brasshats was held before the arrest. As of now, Amarmani was facing charges of tampering with the evidence related to the murder and not involved in the act himself. This will provide an easy passage for the CBI to procure remand of the mafia-turned-politician to question him about the motive behind tampering of evidence.
The arrest is sure to provide courage to the witnesses who earlier on believed that the high-profile former minister may escape the CBI dragnet leaving them to face his ire thereafter. But with a list of more than 20 clinching evidences of Amarmani’s involvement in the murder, there was little hope from him to walk out of the prison in the near future.
His arrest had begun to show positive results as barely an hour of the CBI laid its hand on Amarmani, Madhumita’s mother Shanti Devi took the first ever bold stand before the media seeking arrest of all others involved in the crime.
In a chain reaction, a onetime close business partner of Amarmani Manoj Goel too came up with fresh details about the involvement of the Tripathis in the killing. Adding to it was Deshraj. Under high security care of the CBI at the Yashwant Palace premises of CBI’s SIC (IV) at Chanakyapuri, Deshraj had failed on the lie detector test twice. Now under the care of a psychologist, Deshraj was coming up with fresh facts shedding more light on Madhumita murder case. Sources said that there were possibilities that only one assailant had visited Madhumita and shot her and that Deshraj was misleading the investigators by narrating the “two assailants� theory out of fear of Amarmani Tripathi.
A CBI team would also visit Raju Pandey in Pilibhit jail to collect further details while another round of raids in Noida to collect details of another assialant alleged to have been eliminated by Amarmani at his Rudrapur farmhouse were yeilding results. “There is little more left before Madhumani would be in CBI custody,� admitted a senior officer familiar with the investigations.