New Delhi, July 08: The mystery behind the murder of poetess Mudhumita Shukla, who was killed at her residence in Lucknow on May nine, has deepened with the CBI finding no finger prints from the scene of crime. Highly-placed agency sources told a news agency that the CBI team, which was probing the murder case, had found no finger prints at the residence of the poetess and the Uttar Pradesh police had no convincing explanation to offer. The sources said that police officials said that the murderers had wiped off all the finger prints but failed to explain the missing of foot prints as the killers could not have vanished in thin air. The scene of crime and the sequence of events was also not actually being recast by the state police, the sources said and added that the state police could not even support their claims with any circumstantial evidence. About the meeting of the CBI team with the family of the poetess, the sources said they co-operated with the investigating agency and also threw some light on the deceased's personal life.
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 Amar Mani Tripathi created ripples in political circles forcing Chief Minister Mayawati to sack him from the ministry.

Bureau Report