BHOPAL: Former district judge Giribala Singh and her son, Samarth Singh -- the two accused named in the suspected dowry death case of model-actor Twisha Sharma, on May 12, 2026 -- will remain in judicial custody at Bhopal Central Jail for another two weeks.
The mother-son duo will continue to be lodged in jail unless granted bail by the competent court in the high-profile case.
Lodged in separate wards of Bhopal Central Jail and kept away from other inmates for security reasons since June 2, the mother-son duo was produced before the Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC) court in Bhopal via video conferencing on Tuesday.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which took over the probe from the Madhya Pradesh Police on May 25 following a recommendation by the state government, sought an extension of the mother-son duo’s judicial custody before the court.
The CBI’s legal team submitted that the ongoing investigations were at a crucial stage.
Statements of some key persons related to the accused and the victim’s family were yet to be recorded, scrutiny and analysis of some digital devices/evidences were yet to be completed and the forensic reports of digital data/devices already analysed were yet to be received from the central forensic science laboratory (CFSL) owing to which the judicial custody of the two named accused needed to be extended.
“The JMFC Shobhna Bhalavi, while accepting CBI’s plea, ordered the extension of the mother-son duo’s judicial remand in Bhopal Central Jail to June 30,” Anurag Srivastava, the counsel for Twisha’s father Navnidhi Sharma said.
Importantly, the CBI also apprised the Court that the investigators were yet to receive the detailed and final report of the second autopsy of Twisha’s body, which was conducted by experts from AIIMS-Delhi in AIIMS-Bhopal on the order of the MP High Court on May 24.
The court hearing on Tuesday, also reportedly saw the incarcerated former district judge Giribala Singh, placing a series of demands in the Court, including furnishing English newspapers daily, furnishing complete Hindi dailies to them in the jail (instead of newspapers from which news/information pertaining to their case has been removed), extra time for meeting their counsel in the jail, allowing both her and son Samarth to meet the counsel together in the jail and suspending the advocate’s licence of counsels for Twisha’s father for giving information of the case to media personnel in violation of Supreme Court’s restrictions.
She also demanded that the seizure memo of Twisha’s medicines, which were seized by the investigators, be rendered to her legal team.
“Barring the rendering of the seizure memo of Twisha’s medicines seized by the investigators, the Court turned down all other demands put forward by Giribala Singh,” said advocate Ankur Pandey, who is also part of the legal team for Twisha’s father Navnidhi Sharma.
Aged 33, Twisha was allegedly found dead on the terrace of her matrimonial house in Bhopal’s Bag Mugaliya area on the night of May 12.
While a special investigation team (SIT) of Bhopal Police was initially probing the case, the investigations were transferred to the CBI on May 25 following the state government’s recommendations based on a demand by Twisha’s father and brother.
