In the Twisha Sharma death case, a Bhopal court, on Tuesday (30th June), extended the judicial custody of retired judge Giribala Singh and her son, Advocate Samarth Singh, by 14 days. Both Giribala Singh, who is Twisha Sharma’s mother-in-law and Samarth Singh, who is Sharma’s husband, are accused in her alleged dowry death case.
The accused were produced before the court through video conferencing from the Bhopal Central jail. They will remain in judicial custody till the next date of hearing. The court granted the extension on the plea of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), as the investigation in the case is not yet over.
The CBI moved two pleas, one seeking to get the password to Samarth Singh’s laptop and the other to get voice samples of the accused mother-son duo. The CBI had seized Samarth’s laptop, which is password-protected. The forensic experts at the central forensic science lab are unable to retrieve the data from it. The voice samples are required for conducting a voice spectrography test (forensic voice analysis) of some audio recordings of Samarth and Giribala’s conversation, which form a crucial part of the probe.
What is the case?
Twisha Sharma, a former Miss Pune winner and actor-model from Noida, was found dead at her matrimonial house in Katara Hills area of Bhopal on the night of 12th May. She had married Advocate Samarth Singh on 25th December last year. The couple had met through a dating app around five months before their marriage.
Twisha’s family has accused her husband and in-laws of continuous mental harassment, domestic violence and financial pressure after marriage. On 23rd May, the Supreme Court registered a suo motu case in connection with the death of 33-year-old Twisha Sharma, a resident of Noida, after concerns were raised over the investigation and the handling of evidence in the case.
