Twisha Sharma death case, CBI arrests mother-in-law after Supreme Court probe
A 33-year-old former Miss Pune was found dead five months after marriage, and the CBI arrested her mother-in-law after the High Court cancelled bail.
Twisha Sharma’s death has moved from a family dispute to a national test of how India handles suspicious deaths inside marriage. The 33-year-old former Miss Pune, actor and MBA graduate from Noida was found dead at her matrimonial home in Bhopal’s Katara Hills area on May 12, just months after marrying Bhopal resident Samarth Singh in December 2025.
Her family accused Samarth Singh and his relatives of dowry harassment, mental torture and abetment to suicide. The in-laws denied wrongdoing and claimed Sharma struggled with drug addiction; later, Samarth Singh told investigators she had bipolar disorder. Those competing accounts have kept the case in sharp public view, especially because the accusations now center on a retired district judge, Giribala Singh, Sharma’s mother-in-law.
The Supreme Court took suo motu cognisance of the case and ordered a fair and independent probe. The court said the matter should reach a logical conclusion and urged both families and the media to stop making public statements, a rare intervention that underscored how politically and socially charged the dispute had become.
On May 28, the Madhya Pradesh High Court cancelled Giribala Singh’s anticipatory bail. The Central Bureau of Investigation arrested her the same day after taking over the probe, and it also re-registered the FIR against Samarth Singh and Giribala Singh. Investigators are now reviewing WhatsApp chats, call records, CCTV footage and medical records, while also examining whether digital evidence was tampered with.
Reports say the FIR invokes provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 and the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961. Investigators are also looking into an allegation that Rs 2 lakh was demanded at the time of the wedding vidai, a claim that would put the case squarely within India’s wider pattern of dowry-related violence allegations.
The case has drawn unusually intense attention because it combines several fault lines at once: a young woman’s death soon after marriage, a family split over competing explanations, and the arrest of a retired judge’s mother in a probe now led by the CBI. For many observers, the outcome will matter far beyond one household in Bhopal, because it speaks to how seriously institutions treat allegations of abuse, coercion and suspicious death inside marriage.
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