Madhumita murder: Police find clinching evidence

LUCKNOW: The police now claim to have found a 'clinching evidence' in the Madhumita murder case. Sources reveal that the assailants had dropped a hand-written chit near Madhumita's body in a hurry to flee after the murder. This piece of evidence was collected by the police and duly handed over to the CBCID officials after a mention in the inventory of seizures made from the scene of crime.It was during sustained quizzing that Deshraj — the domestic help of Madhumita, who is the only eye-witness to the killing—revealed about a chit of paper which the visitors had given to him to pass on to Madhumita when they came to visit her on May 9. Deshraj revealed that the visitor who had identified himself as Satya Prakash, wrote something on the chit. When the boy handed the piece of paper to Madhumita, she directed him to escort the visitors inside. On Deshraj's information, the police searched the room in which Madhumita was shot and finally traced the chit. It was found that the assailant who had identified himself as Satya Prakash, had mentioned the name of Madhumita on the piece of paper along with her c e l l p h o n e number. On the other hand, Madhumita's cellphone printouts suggest that calls continued to pour in till an hour and a half past midnight on the day of her murder. Three calls were received from Lakhimpur between 4 pm and 5 pm spreading over a total of 200 seconds. A call from the residential line of Amarmani Tripathi at his Maharajganj residence as mentioned in the diary of the information department was made on her cell at 18:17:31 spreading over 9 seconds. Another call from Maharajganj was made immediately thereafter from another landline.