BHOPAL: CBI filed a 636-page chargesheet in the Twisha Sharma death case before a special court here on Monday, charging her husband Samarth Singh and mother-in-law Giribala Singh, a former district judge, with dowry harassment, abetment to suicide and committing a crime with common intention, under BNS sections 85, 108 and 3(5).During the last hearing on Aug 11, the CBI court of judicial magistrate first class Shibhana Bhalavi directed the investigation team to file a final report in the case on Aug 17. However, while submitting its chargesheet, CBI requested the court to allow it to carry on with further investigation. A supplementary chargesheet naming more persons as accused may be filed after the probe concludes.Ankur Pandey, counsel for Twisha’s family, said although the investigation was yet to be completed, CBI filed its initial chargesheet at the court’s behest as 90 days of Samarth’s arrest would be over on Aug 18.Twisha’s family was unhappy with the CBI chargesheet and alleged that she was murdered. Her mother asserted she could not have committed suicide. Pandey suggested that they had an option to file a ‘protest petition’.However, defence counsel Enosh George Carlo said it was clear from the chargesheet that Twisha’s death was not a dowry death and there was no monetary or any other kind of demand from her by her in-laws.
Twisha was found dead under suspicious circumstances on May 12, less than six months after her marriage to Samarth in Dec 2025.Her husband and mother-in-law claimed she hanged herself at home and was taken to AIIMS-Bhopal, where she was pronounced dead.Her parents, however, accused Samarth and Giribala of dowry harassment as well as physical and mental abuse. The mother-son duo was subsequently arrested.Amid Twisha’s family’s allegations of lapses in the first autopsy at AIIMS-Bhopal, the MP high court ordered a second postmortem examination, which was conducted on May 24 by a four-member team from AIIMS-Delhi in Bhopal.
