Twisha Sharma death: Second autopsy ordered, husband Samarth Singh taken into police custody

Samarth Singh reached the district court in the evening with the intention of surrendering after withdrawing his pre-arrest bail application filed in the Madhya Pradesh High Court.

The Twisha Sharma dowry death case saw some developments Friday when the Madhya Pradesh High Court ordering a second autopsy by a specialised AIIMS Delhi team as requested by her family.

This comes even as the deceased woman's husband, Samarth Singh surrendered in a Jabalpur court after his anticipatory bail plea was turned down. Singh was on the run for more than a week.

He was taken to the nearby Omti police station and is to be handed over to Bhopal police, his lawyer Jaydeep Kaurav said.

The High Court has also issued a notice to Twisha's mother-in-law Giribala Singh, a former district judge, over pleas for cancellation of her bail.

Samarth Singh earlier in the day withdrew his anticipatory bail application filed in the High Court and appeared at the Jabalpur district court in the evening to surrender. A team of Bhopal police took him in their custody and left with him for the state capital, his lawyers said.

Twisha Sharma (33) was found hanging at her matrimonial home in Bhopal's Katara Hills area on May 12. Her family accused her in-laws of dowry harassment and abetment to suicide.

Police had announced a reward of Rs 30,000 for information leading to Samarth Singh's arrest.

The case was much publicised even as both sides traded charges with the Singh family claiming the deceased woman was addicted to drugs.

Regarding Twisha's second autopsy, a specialised team of doctors from AIIMS in Delhi will fly out to Bhopal for, advocate Akur Pandey, the family's lawyer said.

A Bhopal magisterial court had a couple days ago had rejected the family's request for a second postmortem and also suggested that the probe so far did not warrant any such action.

The Madhya Pradesh home department issued a notification stating that it has proposed to transfer the investigation of the case to the CBI.

(With PTI inputs)