Former judicial officer Giribala Singh reportedly argued in the Madhya Pradesh High Court on Monday that while she was upset with her daughter-in-law Twisha Sharma’s decision to go for an abortion, she did not push her to suicide.
Twisha Sharma suicide case
During the hearing of the case at Madhya Pradesh high court, Singh argued that she had not subjected Sharma to any cruelty, news outlet Bar and Bench reported. 33-year-old Sharma was found dead under suspicious circumstances at her marital home in Bhopal on May 12, just five months after her marriage to Samarth, who is also a lawyer. In the FIR, it was alleged that Samarth had taken her to AIIMS Bhopal, where he claimed that she hanged herself at home at 10.20 pm.
Sharma allegedly died by suicide in May this year at her marital home in Bhopal. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which took over the probe in the case, flagged sustained mental torture by her husband Samarth Singh and mother-in-law Giribala Singh . The submission was made by Singh’s counsel before Justice Ajay Kumar Nirankari during the hearing of her bail plea. The doctors at AIIMS informed the police that she was brought in dead to the hospital. The agency has kept the probe open into claims of dowry demands and dowry death.
In its nearly 600-page charge sheet filed before a special court in Bhopal on August 14, CBI has accused Samarth and Giribala Singh of “sustained psychological harm” on Twisha and charged them with abetment to suicide. “During investigation it has been established that accused Giribala and Samarth Singh have committed offences punishable under sections 85 (cruelty and harassment caused by husband and his family members), 108 (abetment of suicide), and 3(5) (common intention) of the Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, in connection with the death of Twisha Sharma,” the charge sheet said.
