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A CBI squad connected Tuesday (May 26, 2026) visited the Bhopal residence of retired justice Giribala Singh to behaviour a probe into the death of her daughter-in-law, Twisha Sharma, officials said.
The probe bureau sleuths, comprising immoderate women personnel, met Ms. Singh's household members astatine her residence successful the Katara Hills area, they said.
Later, the CBI squad went to the Army Cantonment Kurushetra Mess successful the aged city's Shahjehanabad country to conscionable Twisha's household and is presently camping there.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) connected Monday (May 25, 2026) took implicit the probe into the death of erstwhile model-turned-actor Twisha Sharma, who was recovered dormant astatine her marital home present connected May 12, and registered an FIR against her lawyer hubby Samarth Singh and mother-in-law Ms. Giribala Singh.
The bureau sent a Special Crime Unit to Bhopal to instrumentality complaint of the probe and cod the indispensable documents and evidence.
The CBI has re-registered the State constabulary FIR successful which Mr. Samarth Singh and retired territory justice Ms. Giribala Singh were named arsenic accused, arsenic its ain case, according to the procedure.
Taking implicit the probe from the State police, the CBI invoked sections 80(2) (punishment for dowry death), 85 (husband oregon his comparative subjecting pistillate to cruelty) and 3(5) (common intention) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita on with provisions of the Dowry Prohibition Act, which were levelled by the State constabulary arsenic well.
The Bhopal constabulary had registered the FIR 2 days aft Twisha's death.
In their statements, Twisha's household members alleged that she was tormented by her in-laws, who were not satisfied with the dowry paid astatine the clip of matrimony connected December 9, 2025. They accused her in-laws of intelligence torture and home violence, and pushing the 33-year-old erstwhile Miss Pune to instrumentality the utmost step.
Twisha's mother-in-law, however, questioned her purported aesculapian attraction and intelligence authorities successful respective media interviews.
Mr. Samarth Singh was arrested successful Jabalpur connected Friday (May 22, 2026) aft absconding for 10 days. A Bhopal tribunal connected Saturday (May 23, 2026) sent him to a seven-day constabulary remand.
On Sunday (May 24, 2026), a squad of doctors from AIIMS-Delhi conducted a 2nd postmortem of Twisha successful Bhopal pursuing directions from the Madhya Pradesh High Court, aft her parents raised superior concerns astir procedural lapses by section authorities.
