Ahmedabad Times

The case pertains to the dying of Twisha Sharma, a former Miss Puneactor and MBA graduate initially from Noida, who was discovered hanging at her matrimonial house in Bagmugalia, Bhopal, on Could 12, barely 5 months after marrying lawyer Samarth Singh.

The court docket connected explicit significance to the postmortem findings. “As per postmortem report, the dying was resulting from antemortem hanging by ligature however from the postmortem, it is usually clear that six different accidents have been discovered within the physique of the deceased by which 4 accidents have been on the left arm, one in ring finger and one is on the pinnacle and that was antemortem,” the order states.

The Excessive Courtroom additional famous that the medical question report dominated out the defence declare that the accidents could have occurred whereas bringing down the physique or transporting it to hospital. “From the question report, it is usually clear that these accidents weren’t induced resulting from taking out the physique from the ligature or finishing up to the hospital,” the court docket recorded.

The order additionally repeatedly references allegations surrounding Twisha’s being pregnant and abortion. “It’s also [an] admitted incontrovertible fact that the deceased received the being pregnant and that was terminated inside two months,” the court docket noticed, noting that the complainant household alleged strain from the husband and mother-in-law whereas the defence argued the deceased had herself needed the termination.

Throughout arguments, senior advocate Siddharth Luthra, showing for Twisha’s father, relied closely on WhatsApp conversations allegedly despatched by the deceased earlier than her dying. In accordance with the order, Twisha had allegedly informed kinfolk that her husband and in-laws believed she was “hooked on medicine”, didn’t enable her “to stay fortunately nor allowing her to cry”, and that she was “badly caught”.

The court docket order information that Twisha had allegedly informed her household that her husband “all the time doubted her relating to the kid in her womb and acknowledged that she will likely be permitted to stay in her matrimonial house after terminating her being pregnant.” The Excessive Courtroom additionally famous submissions that Twisha had requested relations “to return and carry her to parental home.”

The prosecution and complainant household additionally attacked the style by which anticipatory bail had been granted on the preliminary stage of investigation. Solicitor Normal Tushar Mehta argued earlier than the court docket that “the style by which anticipatory bail was obtained, creates doubt that the trial Courtroom didn’t contemplate the side related for granting anticipatory bail.”

The Excessive Courtroom order information allegations that after acquiring anticipatory bail, Giribala Singh had “made a press convention on 18.05.2026 and tried to malign the picture of the deceased alleging various kinds of allegations.”

The state and CBI additionally argued that essential proof had already been recovered on the primary day of investigation. In accordance with the defence submissions recorded by the court docket, police seized “the ligature, laptop computer keyboard, cell phone of Apple Firm” on Could 13, whereas the deceased’s cell phone was recovered from her husband and the DVR was seized later that night.

The Excessive Courtroom additionally rejected one of many main findings relied upon by the trial court docket — monetary transfers made by the accused to the deceased weakened the dowry harassment allegations. Inspecting the dates of the transfers, the court docket mentioned the cash had been transferred months earlier than Twisha’s dying and “it can’t be mentioned that the respondent has transferred a lot cash within the account of the sufferer, by that, it may very well be presumed that there was no demand of dowry.”