‘Transfer case to Delhi, conduct post-mortem in AIIMS’: Twisha’s friends stage protest
A week ago, all of them were shocked to hear of Twisha’s untimely death in Bhopal, barely five months after her wedding.
The protestors added that they want the case transferred to Delhi and another post-mortem in AIIMS Delhi. (Express Photo/Image enhanced using AI) A handful of Twisha Sharma’s friends, family and well-wishers, makeshift protest boards in their hands, gathered on a Monday afternoon at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar.
A week ago, all of them were shocked to hear of Twisha’s untimely death in Bhopal, barely five months after her wedding. For most of them, there were hardly any warning signs. “We were not aware at all that she was going through a tough time,” Priyanka Sharma, her cousin, told The Indian Express.
“She probably thought she could deal with the problems herself,” she said. “We have seen these things happen before and Twisha would always tell me that there is always a solution, that suicide is not an answer… she was such a cheerful and carefree soul.”
Twisha’s family has claimed her in-laws wield influence in Bhopal, and this could interfere with the investigation. “We were told that no advocate in Bhopal is willing to represent Twisha’s parents,” alleged Priyanka.
The protesters added that they want the case transferred to Delhi and another post-mortem in AIIMS Delhi.
Twisha was found dead at her matrimonial home in Bhopal’s Katara Hills area on May 12. Police have registered an FIR against her husband, advocate Samarth Singh, and mother-in-law Giribala Singh, who served as a district judge in Bhopal before her retirement in February 2023.
The FIR includes charges related to dowry death, dowry harassment and other provisions under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, police said.
Samira, a friend of Twisha who knew her from her modelling days in Pune, claimed, “Two months before the wedding, she told me that her in-laws had asked her to remove all her pictures from social media. She removed everything from her account, but since she’s a model, some of her pictures were published by other outlets. We had no right to get them removed.”
After the wedding, Samira said, Twisha fell out of touch with her friends. “We kept texting and calling her, but she wouldn’t respond. Her last text to me was, ‘Karti hu call, busy hu (I’ll call you later, busy right now),” she said.
Samira, too, described Twisha as cheerful and full of life. “Her laugh… she didn’t care to be prim and proper. Her laugh was so loud and infectious,” she said.
Meanwhile, Twisha’s mother-in-law, Giribal Singh, a retired district judge who is an accused in a case, addressed a press conference in Bhopal on Monday.
During the one-hour press conference, she claimed Twisha had mental health issues, which she linked to being “pushed into the glamorous world at a young age”.
Singh also claimed that her position had instead worked against her family: “Being a district judge is a curse; a common man can get bail. Because I am a retired district judge, there is no question.” Her son, Samarth Singh, was denied anticipatory bail on Monday.
She also denied allegations that the family had abandoned Disha after she was found hanging. “We did everything possible when she was found dead and even informed her family with minute-to-minute updates,” Singh claimed.
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