The Supreme Court has allowed a plea seeking the premature release of Rohit Chaturvedi, a convict in the 2003 murder case of poet Madhumita Shukla, emphasising reformation over retribution.
Prakash Chander Pandey will be produced in court later in the day, CBI sources said.
The prisons department had on Thursday issued an order for the premature release of Amarmani Tripathi, citing the state's 2018 policy on remission, since they have completed 16 years of imprisonment.
It was recovered from Gorakhpur in eastern Uttar Pradesh at the instance of Prakash Chander Pandey, who allegedly killed the poetess.
Desraj, the servant, said Prakash Chander Pandey had come to her residence along with Santosh Kumar Rai.
Inspector Yagya Narain Dikshit was questioned soon after his return from a trip to a neighbouring town early on Saturday morning, CBI sources said.
The scene of crime and the sequence of events were also not being recast by the state police, Central Bureau of Investigation sources said.
The SC was hearing a petition filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation seeking the cancellation of the bail granted to her by the Allahabad high court.
The Uttar Pradesh chief minister also suspended the director general of Crime Branch-Criminal Investigation Department, which has been investigating the case.
A bench of Justices Ashok Bhan and Dalveer Bhandari also ordered that the trial would be held on a day-to-day basis and completed within six months.
This followed a petition filed by the CBI seeking quashing of the bail granted to him in the case.
The DNA of former Uttar Pradesh minister Amarmani Tripathi has matched the dead foetus of slain poetess Madhumita Shukla.
The Uttarakhand high court on Monday upheld the life imprisonment of former Uttar Pradesh Member of Legislative Assembly Amarmani Tripathi, his wife and two others while sentencing another accused, earlier let off by the lower court, in the poetess Madhumita Shukla murder case.
The case involves controversial former Uttar Pradesh minister Amarmani Tripathy.
The trial of the case was earlier shifted from Uttar Pradesh to Dehradun on the direction of the apex court.
The charge sheet names six people, including former Uttar Pradesh minister Amarmani Tripathi, his wife Madhumani Tripathi and nephew Rohit Chaturvedi.
Former Uttar Prasdesh minister Amarmani Tripathi, his wife Madhumani and two others were convicted in the poetess Madhumita Shukla murder case on Wednesday.
Recent media reports have alleged that the DNA of the six-month-old foetus of the slain poetess had matched with that of the former minister's.
The court said in case of any delay, the state will have to take steps to take Amarmani and his wife Madhumani in custody.
She said Madhumita had no relationship with the minister.
Madhumita's younger sister Nidhi Shukla, accompanied by her mother and brother, has been campaigning here against the former minister.
The court had earlier reserved the judgment after hearing a detailed argument on a bail application moved by Tripathi.
CBI has alleged that Tripathi and his wife Madhumani allegedly conspired to eliminate her as she was carrying Amarmani's child with whom she had developed an intimate relationship.
The Uttarakhand high court on Monday upheld the life imprisonment awarded to former Samajwadi Party Member of Legislative Assembly Amarmani Tripathi, his wife and two others in the murder of poetess Madhumita Shukla.
Jailed former Uttar Pradesh minister Amarmani Tripathi, who had managed to sneak out of prison under the pretest of 'illness', was on Monday sent back to jail, police said.
But questions are being raised about the fairness of the investigation after the recent transfer of several senior police officers.
The wife of former UP minister Amarmani Tripathi was absconding for four months.
"We will appeal in the high court against the decision," Vijay Vikram, lawyer of Amarmani, said.
The couple could not surrender on Wednesday due to a lawyer's strike.
The application was filed in the court of Special Judicial Magistrate (CBI) R M Yadav, Tripathi's lawyer Vijay Vikram said.
The former UP minister is an accused in the murder of poetess Madhumita Shukla.
His bail application will be heard on October 6.
The test is being conducted at the Centre for Forensic and Scientific Laboratory located within the headquarters of the CBI.
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