3 min readBhopalMay 20, 2026 10:28 AM IST
Even as questions continue to swirl around the death of model and actor Twisha Sharma, Bhopal Police Commissioner Sanjay Kumar said Tuesday the investigation so far points towards suicide and not murder, while also defending the pace of the probe and the handling of the postmortem examination.
“Our investigation points towards suicide and not murder,” Kumar told reporters, amid mounting demands from Twisha’s family for a second postmortem and allegations that crucial evidence in the case was mishandled.
The commissioner said Twisha’s family had formally approached him seeking another autopsy. “The family members came and gave me an application. I told them that the police have no objection if there is another postmortem, and their application is also part of our case diary. The court will now decide whether there will be a second postmortem,” he said.
The controversy over the postmortem is because, in the post mortem report prepared at AIIMS Bhopal, the investigating officer allegedly failed to produce the belt before the medical board during the autopsy examination. Because of this omission, doctors have been unable to conduct a scientific comparison between the alleged ligature material and the marks found on Twisha’s neck.
According to the post-mortem report prepared at AIIMS Bhopal, doctors observed “two parallel ligature marks” on Twisha Sharma’s neck during the autopsy examination. The report further allegedly recorded that the investigating officer did not produce the alleged nylon belt recovered from the scene before the medical board at the time of the post-mortem. “The alleged ligature material was not presented during examination,” the report noted, adding that because of this omission, “scientific correlation between the ligature mark and the alleged material could not be established.” The report stated that the death was “due to antemortem hanging by ligature.”
“Multiple antemortem injuries (simple in nature, possible by blunt force) over other parts of the body have been noted,” the report said.
Twisha’s family has questioned whether the injuries are fully consistent with suicide and has alleged lapses in the police investigation, including delays in the arrest of her husband, Samarth.
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Responding to criticism that her husband, Samarth Singh – a suspect in the case — has not yet been arrested, Kumar said the investigation was still underway. “It takes time to investigate sometimes. We have made our parties and will soon arrest him,” he said.
The case has triggered intense public attention in Bhopal, particularly because Twisha was the daughter-in-law of retired district judge Giribala Singh. Her death, less than six months after her marriage, is being investigated under provisions relating to dowry death and cruelty.’
