Madhumita Shukla Murder – When UP Minister & Wife Hatched Plot To Kill Poetess Pregnant With His Child

Madhumita Shukla was killed on May 9, 2003, in her Lucknow home. She was reportedly seven months pregnant at the time, and the crime remains in the headlines 2 decades later.

A budding poetess. A ‘bahubali’ politician serving as a minister in the Uttar Pradesh government. A wife seething over her husband’s infidelity and his lover’s refusal to abort his child. It’s been over 20 years since the killing of UP poet Madhumita Shukla, but it’s a crime that has failed to fade from people’s memory, or the headlines. Madhumita Shukla was murdered at her Lucknow home on the night of 9 May 2003. She was pregnant at the time. A CBI

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