NEW DELHI, 12 November 2003 — In a major breakthrough, the CBI on Monday arrested the killer of Uttar Pradesh’s poetess Madhumita Shukla from Lucknow. CBI sources said that Prakash Chander Pandey was arrested and would be produced before a court.
The sources said that Pandey was arrested after a sustained interrogation of his accomplice Santosh Kumar Rai alias Satya Prakash. The duo had visited the Paper Mill Colony residence of the 24-year-old poetess and allegedly shot her dead, they said. Former Uttar Pradesh minister Amarmani Tripathi has already been arrested by the CBI in connection with the murder.
Earlier, the servant of Madhumita Shukla had identified Santosh Rai as “Satya Prakash”, the accomplice of the person who allegedly killed her, the CBI said claiming the development boosted its efforts to solve the case.
