Overview
- Twisha Sharma was found hanging at her marital home in Bhopal on May 12, and police treated the case as a suspicious death that has since been framed as possible dowry-related cruelty.
- Investigators have registered FIRs against her husband, lawyer Samarth Singh, and mother-in-law Giribala Singh under dowry-death and harassment provisions and formed a Special Investigation Team led by ACP Rajnish Kashyap.
- Police and AIIMS Bhopal acknowledged a procedural lapse when the nylon belt recovered at the scene was not produced during the May 13 postmortem, preventing doctors from matching ligature material with neck marks and raising chain-of-custody concerns.
- Samarth Singh is reported to be absconding after a court rejected his anticipatory bail, the police have offered a reward for information leading to his arrest, and courts have summoned the police diary as the family seeks a second autopsy and an independent probe.
- Twisha’s family has refused last rites, pressed for a CBI-monitored inquiry and a second postmortem at AIIMS Delhi while authorities warn that limited mortuary facilities risk decomposition if the body is not moved or claimed quickly.