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The Madhya Pradesh High Court has rejected the anticipatory bail granted to retired Bhopal territory justice Giribala Singh successful the Twisha Sharma dowry harassment and decease case, quashing an bid by a section Bhopal tribunal passed connected May 15.
The anticipatory bail had been granted to her by a Sessions tribunal successful Bhopal connected May 15, conscionable hours aft an FIR was lodged by section constabulary successful the case, booking her and her lad Samarth Singh, Twisha’s husband.
A Single Bench of Justice Devnarayan Mishra issued the order, which had been reserved successful the afternoon, precocious connected Thursday (May 27, 2026) night, aft proceeding 2 petitions, 1 by Twisha’s father, Navnidhi Sharma and different by the State Government, challenging the bail granted to Ms. Singh.
During the proceeding connected Thursday (May 27, 2026) Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the Madhya Pradesh Government argued that “the mode successful which anticipatory bail was obtained, creates uncertainty that the proceedings Court did not see the facet applicable for granting anticipatory bail”.
“After granting bail, the responsive was making Press Conferences and making allegations against the deceased and flouting the law. In specified a superior matter, erstwhile the girl, aged astir 33 years, mislaid her life, the responsive has nary remorse and has not tried to cooperate with the Investigating Agency. The proceedings Court did not see a azygous enactment of the prosecution witnesses and wholly believed successful the defence documents,” helium argued.
In its observations, the High Court noted that immoderate of the injuries recovered connected Twisha’s assemblage were “not caused owed to taking retired the assemblage from the ligature oregon carrying retired to the hospital” and that 1 caput wounded “was antemortem”, suffered earlier death.
“As per the postmortem report, the decease was owed to antemortem hanging by ligature, but from the postmortem, it is besides wide that six different injuries were recovered successful the assemblage of the deceased, successful which 4 injuries were connected the near arm, 1 connected the ringing digit and 1 connected the head, and that was antemortem. From the query report, it is besides wide that these injuries were not caused by taking retired the assemblage from the ligature oregon carrying retired to the hospital,” it observed.
It besides said that the proceedings tribunal did not see allegations, presented by the victim’s family, against Ms. Singh portion granting her the anticipatory bail.
“In airy of the supra factual aspects of the lawsuit and the allegation levelled against the responsive [Ms. Singh], the anticipatory bail bid dated May 15, 2026, passed by the 10th Additional Sessions Judge, Bhopal, for the offence punishable nether Sections 80(2), 85, 3(5) of BNS, 2023 and Sections 3 & 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, is hereby quashed,” the tribunal ruled.
The CBI is expected to apprehension Ms. Singh soon, arsenic its counsel Mr. Suyash Guru, said successful the tribunal that her custodial interrogation whitethorn beryllium required for the case.
“Mystery revolving astir the decease of the deceased, imaginable engagement of the influential accused and non-cooperation shown during ongoing investigation, it indicates that the substance is astatine the archetypal stage, therefore, custodial interrogation of the responsive whitethorn beryllium required and to enactment their contention,”he said.
The CBI, which took implicit the lawsuit from an SIT of the Bhopal Police connected May 25, besides became an intervener successful the 2 petition and sought quashing of the section court’s anticipatory bail order, with its counsel Deputy Solicitor General Suyash Mohan Guru claiming that Ms. Singh’s sister who is simply a backstage doc successful Bhopal, Dr. Rajbala Singh Bhadoriya, and different backstage doc were contiguous wrong the post-mortem country during the archetypal autopsy conducted astatine AIIMS Bhopal connected May 13.
The CBI counsel besides claimed that the accused had not been capable to supply immoderate mentation astir immoderate of the injuries recovered connected Twisha’s body.
Earlier connected Wednesday (May 28, 2026), a section Bhopal tribunal transferred the custody of Samarth Singh, who was nabbed by the Bhopal Police connected May 22, to the CBI. A CBI squad besides took Mr. Singh to his residence to inspect the location wherever Twisha was recovered dormant connected May 12 night.
