Shooter Prakash Pandey
Prakash Pandey, the accused in Uttar Pradesh’s famous Madhumita murder case, passed away. He was suffering from cancer. He was granted bail by the Supreme Court in the Madhumita murder case and was out of jail. Prakash Pandey, a resident of Chargaon in Shahpur Police Station area of ​​Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, has a very good family background. Father was a businessman and also owned a petrol pump. But Prakash Pandey fell into bad company and started doing criminal activities.
On May 9, 2003, Prakash Pandey’s name surfaced for the first time as the shooter in the Madhumita Shukla murder case. This was also the last crime of his life. He changed the direction of his life in his desire to become Sri Prakash Shukla. While Madhumita was serving sentence in a murder case, he was released from jail on bail, but cancer took hold of him and he died while undergoing treatment at Lucknow’s PGI. His last rites were performed at Rajghat in Gorakhpur.
Father was a businessman
Prakash Pandey did Intermediate from MG Inter College and Graduation from Degree College. During his studies he got involved with some wrong people. Their contacts began to increase and their meetings were also held in Rustampur and Azad Chowk. Because father was a businessman and he also had a petrol pump. Due to this, Prakash had no shortage of money. Prakash used to spend lavishly on all the friends who joined him. Due to this the circle of friendship increased a lot.
Father Mukteshwar Nath Pandey died in 1999. In such a situation, Prakash tried to handle his business, but he could not handle it and went on wandering in the wrong company. His old friends said that Prakash Pandey, Santosh Rai and Sriprakash Shukla were almost of the same age. On 22 September 1998, there was an encounter between Sriprakash Shukla and his gang of criminals. After which Santosh Rai, Bhim Singh, Prakash Pandey and Bhim Tiwari etc. increased their activity in the field of crime. Later, due to their association with ministers, Santosh Rai and Prakash Pandey moved to Lucknow.
The name came up in the Madhumita murder case
Prakash had grown closer to Amarmani Tripathi. Meanwhile, in 2003, the case of poetess Madhumita Shukla living in Lakhimpur Kheri in Tubewell Colony of Lucknow was shot dead. Madhumita Shukla was seven months pregnant at that time. A police investigation at the time revealed that former minister Amarmani Tripathi and Madhumita were in a long-standing affair. Later, when Madhumita pressured her for marriage, it was decided to remove Madhumani from the road.
Former minister Amarmani Tripathi, his wife Madhumani, Rohit Chaturvedi, Santosh Rai, Prakash Pandey were made accused in Madhumita’s murder. In 2007, a CBI court convicted four people, including Amarmani and his wife, and sentenced them to life imprisonment. All the accused appealed against the sentence in the High Court. In 2012, Prakash Pandey was convicted along with all the accused in the High Court and Prakash appealed to the Supreme Court while he was in jail. He got bail in 2013 after spending a year in jail.
Wife is Associate Professor
Prakash Pandey had a love marriage with a girl from Pathra Colony, who is currently an Associate Professor in Lucknow. Prakash lived in Lucknow with his wife and 14-year-old son.
The student union was interested in politics
Prakash Pandey contested and won the student union election at Digvijay Nath PG College in the year 1997-98. After that the number of his malevolent friends increased a lot. During my stay in Lucknow, in the year 2002-03, Gorakhpur University Student Union elections were being held. At that time Prakash Pandey and Santosh Rai came for election campaign. He was promoting Sanjeev Singh Srinet. During this time, both were preoccupied with luxury cars and elections with full pomp. Meanwhile he was also spending a lot of money. Even those close to him could not understand where so much money came from. Meanwhile, CBI arrested Santosh Rai. After which the discussion market was heated. A few days later, Prakash Pandey and Rahul Chaturvedi were also arrested.
He got bail from the Supreme Court, was in the grip of illness.
Prakash Pandey, serving a life sentence in the Madhumita murder case, got bail after appealing to the Supreme Court. He was released from prison in 2013. Two years ago he fell seriously ill. The examination revealed that he has mouth cancer. He had an operation done a year ago. After the operation, he could not eat or drink anything by mouth. A tube was inserted into his stomach, through which some liquid food was being given. He was completely cut off from society due to illness. He lived in Lucknow with his wife and their 14-year-old son.
He lived in Lucknow with his family
His younger brother Naveen Pandey and mother live at home in Gorakhpur. In recent days, due to worsening illness, he was admitted to PGI, where he died during treatment. After his death, he was brought to his residence in Gorakhpur and cremated at Rajghat. Meanwhile, his relatives, relatives and well-wishers were present in large numbers.
Retired CO Shivpujan Singh Yadav said that he was posted as Kotwali in the year 2002-03. I first heard Prakash Pandey’s name as the shooter in the Madhumita murder case. An order came from above to trace Prakash’s criminal history and send him. We tried a lot but could not find anything against it. People of the city said that he belongs to a good family. He went astray because of the company of wrong friends. In such a situation, parents should definitely keep an eye on their children so that they can be protected from bad company.
