A special CBI court at Bhopal is likely to send Giribala Singh, a former district judge, and her son Samarth Singh, a lawyer and husband of model-turned-actor Twisha Sharma, to judicial custody on Tuesday afternoon. The duo was produced before the court on Tuesday, and after the CBI did not seek any further remand, the court is expected to order their judicial custody. The CBI judge was dictating orders in the case while this report was being filed.
Timeline of Events
May 12, 2025: Twisha Sharma and Samarth Singh’s engagement ceremony was held in a Noida flat.
December 2025: Model-turned-actor Twisha Sharma from Noida married Samarth Singh, a lawyer and son of retired district judge Giribala Singh, and began residing in Bhopal’s Katara Hills area.
May 12, 2026: Twisha was found dead at her in-laws’ home in Katara Hills. Her family accused her in-laws of dowry harassment and abetment to suicide.
May 15: Police registered an FIR against a retired district judge and her advocate son in connection with the alleged dowry death. Later, a Bhopal court granted bail to the retired judge during an anticipatory bail hearing. The husband remained absconding.
May 16: Police constituted a six-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the case.
May 17: Family members of the 31-year-old Noida woman staged a brief dharna outside the chief minister’s official residence after being denied a meeting.
May 18: A sessions court in Bhopal rejected the bail application of the absconding husband. Bhopal DCP Zone-2 announced a reward of Rs 10,000 for his arrest.
May 19: Twisha’s kin sought an independent probe and demanded an end to her “posthumous character trial” in press conferences held by the accused.
May 20: Twisha’s kin met the chief minister, who assured them of a CBI probe. A Bhopal court rejected the plea for a second post-mortem. Police increased the reward for Samarth’s arrest to Rs 30,000.
May 21: Police issued a third and final notice to Giribala Singh to record her statement. Samarth filed a fresh bail plea. The Home Department held a meeting on handing over the case to the CBI.
May 22: Jabalpur police took Samarth Singh into custody from the district court premises after he arrived to surrender, according to his lawyer.
June 2: CBI officers reconstructed the circumstances surrounding Twisha’s alleged suicide at her marital home, using a sand-filled dummy weighing around 80 kg with iron dumbbells tied to its feet to replicate body weight and balance.
