HC refuses bail to Madhumani Tripathi

A two-member bench of the High Court comprising Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and Nirmal Yadav refused to grant bail to Tripathi on the ground that the petition challenging her conviction by a lower court is listed for final hearing next month, said Virendra Singh Adhikari, counsel Madhumita`s sister Nidhi Shukla.

Tripathi had applied for bail on medical grounds, he said.

Madhumani Tripahi, her husband Amarmani and two others were convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment by a Dehra Dun court in 2007 for hatching a conspiracy and killing poetess Shukla in Lucknow in 2003.