33-year-old Twisha Sharma’s death over alleged dowry harassment

SOCIAL – WOMEN

1 JUNE 2026

• Retired Bhopal district judge Giribala Singh was arrested by CBI in connection with her daughter-in-law Twisha Sharma’s dowry harassment and death case.
• Giribala’s son and Twisha’s husband, Samarth Singh was already in the CBI custody.
• Twisha, 33, a former model and an MBA graduate, was found hanging at her marital home in Bhopal’s Katara Hills area on the night of May 12, just five months after marrying Samarth, a lawyer, on December 9, 2025.
• While her family hails from Uttar Pradesh’s Noida, Twisha had moved to Bhopal after the wedding.
• The couple had met through a matrimonial website in 2024 after which they got engaged in May, 2025.
• Earlier, she had been Miss Pune before taking up a career in marketing.
• As per her family, Twisha and her mother were on a phone call since 9.41 p.m. with Samarth allegedly screaming at her in the background.
• The phone got disconnected around 10.05 p.m. and was switched off.
• Her mother kept trying the numbers of Samarth and Giribala for about 20 minutes.
• Around 10.37 p.m., Giribala allegedly answered her phone, told Twisha’s family “she is no more” and hung up.
• Even after the FIR was lodged, the family continued to allege several lapses in the probe, such as a delay in recovering crucial evidence like the belt used as ligature from the incident spot.
• Twisha’s family and friends also launched a social media campaign seeking justice for her, which brought the national spotlight on the case and dowry-related deaths in general.
• Just days after Twisha’s death, her friends and family releases several chat screenshots of their conversations with her that went viral on social media. The messages talked about the alleged abuse she was facing and advice of not rushing into a marriage for the sake of it. One of them read, “My life is a living hell.”
• Some messages with her mother read, “Samarth is asking whose child was it that you aborted. Mummy, I will go mad here. I am not able to do all this now.”
• During a hearing of the case in the Supreme Court, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta had said, “It is better to have a divorced daughter than a dead daughter.”