The Indian Express (Delhi Edition)
2001 kidnapping case: Victim moves court, claims accused ex-up minister has ‘no role’
THE ALLEGED victim in a 22year-old kidnapping case in which former UP minister Amarmani Tripathi is the prime accused has now filed an application before a Basti court seeking permission for a “compromise” in the case. In his application, the victim, who is now in his 30s and was a minor at the time of the incident, claims that Amarmani has no involvement in the kidnapping and adds that he does not know or recognise him (Amarnani).
The case is pending in court. Amarmani is absconding and following a court directive, police are attaching his properties. The kidnapping case was initially filed by the victim' s father, who died several years ago .“the victim appearedbefore the court on friday ,” said government counsel Devanand Singh.
He added that the applicant has requested to make his application part of the case and the court is yet to take a decision in this regard.according to the prosecution, the victim has claimedthat he has “no dispute” with Amarmani and has “never met him”. Also, at the time of his “kidnapping”, no one mentioned Am arman i’ s name, the victim has claimed in his application.
On August 24 last year, the
Uttar Pradesh government ordered the premature release of Trip at hi and his wife mad hum a ni, serving life imprisonment in the 2003 murder case of a poet, Madhumani Shukla, in Lucknow. The government had said then that Tripathi and his wife showed “good behaviour while serving the term ”. According to the prosecution, in 2001, the victim was allegedly kidnapped in bas ti district. The police later found him purportedlylocked up in a house that was allegedly in the possession of Amarmani and booked nine persons, including the former minister, in the case.of the total accused, one person has died and two others have been at large after jumping bail, police said. The case files of five of the accused have been separated from those of the remaining. Their trial has begun, sources said.
Despite multiple summons, Amarmani Tripathi failed to appear in court, prompting the issuance of a non-bailable warrant against him in October last year. In November, the court declared A mar mania pro claimed offender and directed the attachment of his properties.