Court sends Aman Mani Tripathi to 3 days CBI transit remand

A Delhi court today granted CBI three-day transit remand of Samajwadi Party leader Aman Mani Tripathi, son of jailed politician Amar Mani Tripathi, to take him to Lucknow in connection with the alleged murder of his wife.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Satish Kumar Arora allowed the application moved by the investigating agency seeking transit remand and directed that Aman Mani be produced before the court concerned in Lucknow, under whose jurisdiction the FIR has been lodged, on or before December 5.
The politician is in CBI custody since November 26 after being arrested for the alleged murder of his 27-year-old wife Sara, who had reportedly died in a car accident in Firozabad on National Highway 2 in July last year. However, he had escaped unhurt.

Based on a complaint by Sara's mother Seema Singh, an FIR was registered against Aman Mani in Firozabad district. Singh had alleged that her daughter, who had married Aman Mani at an Arya Samaj temple in Lucknow in July 2013, was murdered.
Aman Mani's parents, Amar Mani and Madhu Mani, were against the marriage, Singh had said.
Aman Mani, however, had claimed Sara died in the road accident when they were on their way to New Delhi for a holiday.
After Singh had demanded that Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav order a CBI investigation into the incident, the matter was referred to the central agency, which took over the probe from UP Police a few days later.

Aman Mani was recently given a ticket by the Samajwadi Party to contest Assembly election in the state.