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The suspicious decease of 33-year-old exemplary and histrion Twisha Sharma has taken a captious crook arsenic a Bhopal tribunal has rejected the anticipatory bail plea of her absconding lawyer-husband, Samarth Singh.
Following the court’s determination connected Monday (May 18, 2026), the Bhopal Police officially announced a currency reward of ₹10,000 for immoderate accusation starring to his arrest.
The tribunal earlier granted anticipatory bail to Samarth’s mother, retired justice Giribala Singh, who is besides an accused successful the case.
Twisha was recovered hanging astatine her marital location successful Bhopal’s Katara Hills country connected May 12, conscionable months aft her December 2025 matrimony to Samarth, whom she met connected a dating app successful 2024.
While a Special Investigation Team (SIT) probes the case, her household alleges she was systematically tortured and murdered implicit dowry, charges denied by Ms. Singh.
Misrod Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Rajneesh Kashyap, who is heading the SIT, said efforts were underway to hint Samarth.
During the tense courtroom hearing, Samarth’s counsel opposed apprehension by raising questions astir Twisha’s intelligence health, a connection that was powerfully countered by the deceased woman’s household lawyer.
He cited terrible risks of grounds tampering.
After proceeding arguments, Sessions Court Judge Pallavi Dwivedi turned down the pre-arrest bail exertion of Samarth.
While the tribunal had antecedently granted anticipatory bail to Twisha’s mother-in-law, Ms. Singh, it flatly denied akin alleviation to Samarth.
Reacting to the development, the woman’s grief-stricken father, Navnidhi Sharma, told PTI Videos that the rejection was lone a partial measurement towards justness and the existent triumph would lone travel erstwhile some are punished, demanding the contiguous apprehension of some the hubby and the retired judge.
“Rejection of the anticipatory bail plea was not our victory. Our triumph volition beryllium erstwhile some are punished,” helium said.
He expressed heavy fears that the influential household would usage wealth and powerfulness to unafraid alleviation from the Madhya Pradesh High Court if they were not locked up immediately.
The ineligible conflict intensified connected Monday (May 18, 2026) arsenic the contents of Samarth’s bail plea surfaced connected societal media, claiming Twisha was a psychiatric diligent and cause addict whose hands and feet would tremble without entree to narcotics.
To antagonistic the dowry allegations, the retired justice attached online transaction slips ranging from ₹5,000 to ₹50,000, claiming they regularly provided for Twisha’s needs.
However, Twisha’s household has fiercely rubbished these allegations, presenting a antithetic timeline of events and describing Twisha arsenic a jolly and happening miss who drastically changed aft marriage, losing 15 kilograms owed to relentless intelligence torture.
Her cousin, Meenakshi, spoke to assorted media houses alleging that the harassment peaked erstwhile Twisha mislaid her work-from-home occupation and became pregnant, and her hubby refused to admit the child.
The section probe has already travel nether terrible scrutiny arsenic ACP Kashyap confirmed that portion the preliminary AIIMS Bhopal post-mortem points to a “hanging suicide, the household claims aggregate wounded marks connected her assemblage bespeak murder”.
In an admittance of a lapse successful the section probe, Kashyap confirmed that the probe serviceman failed to nonstop the enactment allegedly utilized successful the hanging to AIIMS during the autopsy and said that enactment would beryllium taken against the erring officer.
He made it wide that the SIT is strictly probing the lawsuit based connected the dowry and abetment sections successful the FIR, careless of the husband’s claims.
“In the bail petition, allegations regarding Twisha being a cause addict person been mentioned, but we are strictly investigating the lawsuit according to the sections mentioned successful the FIR,” Kashyap told PTI.
The plea besides claimed she had been undergoing psychiatric attraction and intelligence wellness counselling.
Addressing a property league aft the tribunal ruling, Ms. Singh claimed Twisha suffered from intelligence unwellness and depression.
She said Twisha’s decease was similar a “nightmare” for the household arsenic she was portion of it.
The retired justice alleged Twisha’s household pushed her into the glamour satellite astatine a precise young property and claimed she remained nether intelligence unit due to the fact that of it.
Ms. Singh besides claimed Twisha’s household did not sojourn her successful the past 5 months and were present not allowing her past rites to beryllium performed.
She expressed afloat religion successful the ongoing constabulary probe and the judiciary.
The bail plea besides claimed Twisha travelled to Delhi by formation connected April 17 and remained untraceable for astir 12 hours earlier reaching her parents’ location the adjacent day.
It further alleged her behaviour towards her in-laws changed aft she became large and claimed her hubby had taken her to a quality salon connected the time of the incident.
According to the plea, Twisha had besides suffered a miscarriage.
However, Twisha’s household described her arsenic a cheerful and lively pistillate whose behaviour changed aft marriage.
Officials said the SIT would analyse allegations related to dowry harassment, carnal battle and alleged attempts to destruct grounds aft her death.
On Sunday (May 17, 2026), Twisha’s household staged a large protestation extracurricular Chief Minister Mohan Yadav’s residence successful Bhopal.
Pointing retired that Twisha’s assemblage has been kept successful a Bhopal mortuary for 5 days, her begetter demanded that the compromised section probe beryllium halted and a fresh, autarkic post-mortem beryllium conducted astatine AIIMS Delhi.
