New Delhi: Former Uttar Pradesh Minister Amar Mani Tripathi, remanded to a week's police custody in the Madhumita Shukla murder case, was on September 24 brought to New Delhi for questioning by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), agency sources said.

He is likely to undergo a lie detector test, the sources said.

Tripathi was arrested on September 21 and remanded to seven days' police custody by a special judicial magistrate in Lucknow.

He is the key accused in the murder of the young poetess in Lucknow on May 9.

The special magistrate had directed that Tripathi be taken for a medical examination before being handed over to CBI and also after the remand expired.

PTI