lucknow the murder of mahoba businessman indrakant tripathi who succumbed to gunshot wounds on sunday turned murkier with the leak of five audio tapes on social media early tuesday mahoba superintendent of police manilal patidar was suspended for corruption less than 24 hours after tripathi who blew the whistle on the ips officer was found inside his car with a bullet in his neckfour taped conversations purportedly of the slain businessman days before he was shot at provide a damning insight into the extortion racket involving politicians police and district administration over stone mining at bundelkhand the first conversation is between a trader local mla and unidentified persons while the fifth is between tripathis cousin brijesh shukla and a criminal ashu bhadauriain one of the audios tripathi is heard talking to an unknown person on phone and saying jo demand sp saheb ki wo hi demand dm ki hai rs 5 lakh sp rs 5 lakh dm aur rs 5 lakh baki sab the demands of sp and dm are same both want rs 5 lakh each and others rs 5 lakh what will we eat and how will we survive toi doesnt confirm the veracity of these audio tapesin the same audio the unknown caller is heard saying he paid rs 6 lakh to the superintendent of police in june and july but when stone crushing work was stopped by the administration he could not cough up morein another 426minute audio tripathi is heard telling a colleague he met sp mahoba for the first time and told him aapki hi chhatra chhaya main ji rahe hain aap jaisa bolenge waisa karenge i am living under your patronage whatever you say will be done in the same audio tripathi says he never visited the sp to pay bribe but would be assigned a desolate spot where the amount would be handed over to a henchmansimilarly in another 28second audio tripathi is heard saying he has paid rs 5 lakh bribe to sp and another rs 1 lakh to station officerin subsequent conversations tripathi is heard chatting with an mla and complains how he was being coerced to cough up rs 6 lakh by the mahoba sp patidarlikewise in another audio of 149 minutes made just hours before tripathi took a bullet on september 8 local goon bhadauria is heard telling the businessmans nephew that raja saheb sp mahoba is very annoyed track down your uncle indrakant if you dont enquire about his whereabouts you will suffer the consequences the criminal is heard sayingarun srivastava who took over as mahoba sp after his predecessor was suspended told reporters these audios are being verified an officer of the rank of dysp is probing the case he saidstate dgp hitesh chandra awasthy told toi that the threemember sit has the mandate to probe into the murder of businessman indrakant tripathion september 8 tripathi was shot at by unidentified persons hours after he made a video viral accusing then sp mahoba mani lal