New Delhi: Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on June 24 registered a case into the murder of poetess Madhumita Shukla against unknown people and a high level team was leaving for Lucknow June 25 to begin investigations into the case.

The case was registered under various sections of Indian Penal Code (IPC) after the CBI received a notification from the Centre earlier in the day, agency sources said.

They said a high level team led by deputy inspector general of police was leaving for Lucknow on June 25 to begin investigations into the case.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati had recommended a CBI probe as the poetess' murder has become a big political controversy in the state after the name of former Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) minister Amar Mani Tripathi was linked to it.

The investigations would begin as soon as a camp office of the CBI team would be set up in the case.

The 24-year old poetess was shot dead by two assailants in her Paper Mill colony residence on May nine. The alleged relationship between Madhumita and the former BSP minister created ripples in political circles forcing the Chief Minister to sack Tripathi from the ministry and hand over the case to CB- CID with a direction to complete probe within a month's time.

Tripathi has denied any involvement in the murder saying that he was in no way involved in the case and the allegations levelled against him were baseless and the CBI probe would bring out the truth.

PTI