The Uttar Pradesh Prisons Administration department has given the green light for the release of former minister Amarmani Tripathi and his wife Madhumani Tripathi. The couple is serving a life sentence following their conviction in the murder case of poetess Madhumita Shukla. The fateful incident occurred on May 9, 2003, when Madhumita Shukla, a 24-year-old budding poet and reportedly the romantic interest of Amarmani, was fatally shot at close range by two assailants in her two-room apartment in Lucknow’s Paper Mill Colony. She was seven months pregnant at the time.