Twisha Sharma Death: CBI Registers Case After SC's Directions; Husband Samarath, Mother-In-Law Booked

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a case in the death of  Twisha Sharma, who was found dead at her in-laws’ house in Bhopal earlier this month.

The central agency booked Twisha’s husband Samarath Singh and mother-in-law Giribala Singh under Sections 80(2), 85 and 3 (5) of the BNS Act 2023 and sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, following the Supreme Court’s directions.

Earlier on Monday, the apex court directed the CBI to take over the investigation and proceed with the matter expeditiously.

Twisha (33), a former model-actor from Noida, was found hanging at her marital residence in Bhopal’s Katara Hills area on the night of May 12. She tied the knot with Bhopal resident Samarth Singh in December 2025, a year

after meeting him through an online matrimonial platform. Following her death, Twisha’s family alleged that she was being harassed for dowry by her in-laws.

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While Giribala Singh got the anticipatory bail, Samarth Singh evaded the police for more than a week before surrendering at a police station in Jabalpur on May 22.

Meanwhile, the Madhya Pradesh High Court has adjourned to May 27 the hearing on pleas challenging the anticipatory bail granted to Giribala Singh, after the defence sought time to file replies. During the proceedings, Singh’s counsel, George Carlo, submitted that his client had not yet received a copy of the petition filed by Twisha’s father, Navnidhi Sharma, and sought additional time to file a formal reply.

On Sunday, the last rites of Twisha Sharma were conducted 12 days after her death, following the second postmortem of her body conducted by a team of AIIMS Delhi on a high court order.

Chief of Forensic Medicine at AIIMS, Delhi, Dr Sudhir Gupta, had said the compilation of the report will take some time as certain laboratory tests, including histopathology and viscera examination, are required.

Twisha’s family had raised several concerns over the circumstances surrounding her death. They alleged blunt force injuries on Twisha’s left arm and forearm, a lack of detailed dissection to determine the depth and age of injuries, and the absence of radiological examination of the neck and cervical structures. The family also sought a correlation between the alleged ligature material and injuries recorded on the neck and requested a toxicological evaluation of preserved viscera samples.