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A retired justice and her lad person been booked successful a dowry harassment lawsuit aft her 33-year-old daughter-in-law died connected Tuesday (May 12, 2026) allegedly by termination successful Madhya Pradesh’s Bhopal, constabulary officers said connected Friday (May 15, 2026), with the victim’s household alleging intelligence harassment by the accused. The household has besides accused the constabulary of “shielding” the accused and hold successful filing the FIR.
According to the police, Twisha Sharma was recovered dormant successful her location successful Katara Hills country connected Tuesday (May 12, 2026) nighttime aft which she was taken to infirmary and declared brought dead, prompting AIIMS, Bhopal, doctors to alert the police.
Twisha lived with her hubby and lawyer Samarth Singh, and his parent Giribala Singh, a retired judge, successful Bhopal since her marriage. She had worked arsenic a exemplary and had won Miss Pune successful 2012 earlier taking a vocation successful marketing.
Vikas Kumar Sehwal, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Bhopal zone-2, told The Hindu that an FIR was registered nether Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) Section 80(2) based connected a ailment from the deceased’s household and an probe taken up.
Mr. Sehwal said that a postmortem introspection was conducted connected the unfortunate and that the archetypal findings showed decease by hanging.
“We are waiting for the elaborate study and besides gathering different grounds of harassment and records of dowry demands. The accused volition beryllium arrested based connected evidence,” helium said.
Twisha had joined to Mr. Singh successful December 2025, aft they met done a dating app successful 2024.
The victim’s household has accused her hubby and mother-in-law of mentally harassing and misbehaving with her and making fiscal demands.
“They utilized to telephone her ‘useless’ and ‘a load connected them’ aft she discontinue her occupation for sometime. They would taunt her that she came from a dysfunctional family. When they recovered retired that she had a fixed deposit of ₹20 lakh, her hubby would perpetually inquire her to transportation it to him. His parent ever took his side,” Twisha’s brother, Major Harshit Sharma said to The Hindu.
“They look a precise reputed household connected insubstantial but the benignant of comments and abuses they passed connected my sister are wholly different. They are present telling the constabulary that she was clinically depressed. She had nary past of intelligence illness. She was a precise cheerful and assured pistillate each her beingness and they killed her by harassing her wrong six months of marriage,” helium said, portion accusing Ms. Singh and her lad of delaying taking Twisha to hospital.
Mr. Sharma and his family, who hail from adjacent Ajmer successful Rajasthan arrived successful Bhopal connected Wednesday (May 13, 2026) greeting aft learning astir Twisha’s decease the erstwhile night.
Mr. Sharma besides alleged that the section constabulary were successful “bonhomie” with the accused family.
“We knew they were influential radical but we were inactive shocked to spot the rapport betwixt them and the constabulary unit successful the infirmary and the transgression scene. The cops were not adjacent responding to america properly,” helium said, adding that the household has decided not to instrumentality the assemblage from the mortuary until his sister gets justice.
“The section constabulary presumption in-charge adjacent told america that it volition instrumentality 15-20 days to record an FIR whether we instrumentality the assemblage oregon not. I had to constitute to elder constabulary officers astir the behaviour of section police,” helium said.
Mr. Sharma besides said that his household was threatened by immoderate section lawyers erstwhile they went to reason an anticipatory bail filed by the accused.
“I had to attack my seniors successful the Army who past arranged information for us,” helium said.
Mr. Sehwal, however, denied the charges and said that the FIR was filled soon aft the ineligible requirements were completed.
“The officers lone tried to explicate the ineligible aspects to the household arsenic they making some execution and dowry harassment allegations,” the DCP said.
Meanwhile, relatives of Twisha staged a demonstrations successful Bhopal seeking justness for her and person besides launched a run connected societal media.
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