Jabalpur/Bhopal: The high-profile Twisha Sharma dowry death case saw fast-paced developments on Friday with police taking custody of her husband who was on the run for more than a week, and the Madhya Pradesh High Court ordering a second autopsy by a specialised AIIMS Delhi team as requested by her family.
The High Court also issued a notice to Twisha’s mother-in-law Giribala Singh, a former district judge, over pleas for cancellation of her bail over non-cooperation with the police.
Samarth Singh, Twisha’s absconding lawyer husband, withdrew his anticipatory bail application filed in the High Court earlier in the day, and appeared at the Jabalpur district court in the evening to surrender. A team of Bhopal police took him in their custody, his lawyers said.
Twisha Sharma, a 33-year-old model-turned-actor from Noida, was found hanging at her marital home in Bhopal’s Katara Hills area on May 12. While her in-laws allege she suffered with drug addiction, her family maintains she was harassed for dowry leading to her death.
Hearing a petition filed by Twisha’s family, a single-bench of the High Court asked the state government to make immediate arrangements for flying a specialised team of doctors from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi, to Bhopal for the second autopsy, advocate Akur Pandey, the family’s lawyer told PTI.
The decision comes just two days after Judicial Magistrate First Class Anudita Gupta in Bhopal rejected the family’s request for a second postmortem and also suggested that the probe so far did not warrant any such action.
In a related development, the Madhya Pradesh home department issued a notification stating that it has proposed to transfer the investigation of the case to the CBI.
