New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today (Nov 11) filed a petition in the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court challenging a lower court order allowing jailed former Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Minister Amarmani Tripathi, an accused in the Madhumita murder case, to attend the ongoing Uttar Pradesh Assembly session.

The petition, filed after the designated CBI court yesterday (Nov 10) allowed Tripathi to attend the session, is likely to be taken up tomorrow, agency sources said.

In its petition, filed under Sections 482, 397 and 401 of Criminal Penal Code (CPC), the CBI sought an immediate stay on the lower court order and its subsequent quashing.

Tripathi was arrested by CBI on September 21 and has been in judicial custody after he was subjected to lie detector test and interrogation at length.

The agency had objected to the order saying Tripathi might try to influence the witnesses in the case.

The CBI, in its petition, has also highlighted the recent developments in the case, which included arrest of Tripathi's cousin, Rohit Chaturvedi, Madhumita's killer Prakash Chander Pandey and small time political worker Santosh Kumar Rai.

Madhumita was shot dead at her Paper Mill Colony residence near Lucknow on May 9 and the CBI claimed that she was shot dead by Pandey while Rai accompanied him under the name of Satya Prakash.

PTI