Twisha Sharma dowry death: Cops take husband’s custody

(PTI)

JABALPUR/BHOPAL, May 22: Jabalpur police on Friday took into their custody Samarth Singh, an accused in the alleged dowry death case of his wife Twisha Sharma, after he reached the district court here to surrender, his lawyer said.

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

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.

Singh, who is a lawyer by profession, was evading arrest since an FIR was registered against him and his mother, former district judge Giribala Singh, following Twisha Sharma’s death on May 12.Members of Twisha’s family and their lawyers were also present outside the court.

Model-turned-actor 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. Twisha’s family, meanwhile, on Friday demanded a comprehensive and independent probe into a series of phone calls allegedly made by Giribala Singh to influential public figures and CCTV technicians immediately following her death.

The family issued a statement the day after Giribala Singh informed the First Class Judicial Magistrate that eight CCTVs installed at her premises were being managed by a private company. She also informed that the gadgets were not being maintained properly, as a result of which the footage showed a difference of two days, two hours and 20 minutes. Giribala Singh had said in her application on Thursday that the wrong date was creating confusion among the general public.