Overview
- Twisha Sharma was found dead at her matrimonial home on May 12, and the first post‑mortem at AIIMS Bhopal recorded the cause as asphyxia from antemortem hanging by ligature.
- The Madhya Pradesh High Court ordered a second, videographed autopsy by a specialised AIIMS Delhi team, the team completed the examination and Sharma’s body was handed to the family and cremated.
- The state moved the probe to the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Supreme Court formally registered a suo motu matter on May 25 to scrutinise alleged institutional bias and procedural discrepancies.
- Her husband, advocate Samarth Singh, surrendered and was remanded to seven days of police custody, his passport was seized and the Bar Council suspended his licence while legal challenges to the mother‑in‑law’s anticipatory bail proceed.
- Public and family complaints point to specific lapses — disputed CCTV handling, delayed FIR registration and questions about evidence preservation — and the courts’ interventions aim to secure an independent, transparent forensic and criminal inquiry.