CBI, lab yet to submit DNA report

In Hyderbad, the DNA centre denied that Tripathi’s blood sample matched that of Madhumita’s foetus. CDFD Director Seyed E. Hasnain said there was no truth in the reports claiming that the centre had made a finding. ‘‘Neither have we completed the tests, nor have we sent a preliminary report (to the CBI),’’ he said.

The testing process would take a while, he said without specifying any timeframe. Madhumita was murdered in her Lucknow residence on May 10 this year by two unidentified gunmen.

Reports had claimed that the DNA analysis of Tripathi’s blood sample had matched that of Madhumita’s foetus, which was subsequently intimated to the agency. The blood samples of the former BSP minister and that of the six-month-old foetus were sent to the centre for analysis after the case was transferred to the CBI in June by then chief minister Mayawati.

Tripathi, who came under suspicion after reports that he and his family members were behind the killing of the poet who was allegedly carrying his baby, had initially hesitated in giving his blood samples, but finally he was made to relent.