AIIMS Submits Forensic Report in Twisha Sharma Death Probe

AIIMS Medical Board Cites Scientific Examination

Dr.Sudhir Gupta, Chief Forensic Medicine Department of AIIMS said that they have conducted an elaborate examination to come to the conclusion.

“The medical board deliberated very minutely on the case from all possible angles, taking into consideration all available national and international journals for almost one month before giving a detailed opinion with scientific justification. It is a crystal-clear opinion for the CBI and for the judiciary in the interest of truth and justice,” he said.

However, he refused to reveal further details as the report was submitted in a sealed cover as per directions. 

Second Postmortem Ordered By High Court

The conclusions are considered crucial as in the first post-mortem, the material of hanging was not found correlated to the injuries on Twisha Sharma neck as the investigation officer failed to produce the Gymnastics belt. Following the family demand for a second postmortem, the High Court of Madhya Pradesh has ordered for a postmortem at AIIMS New Delhi and also constituted a medical board for this task. The AIIMS report will help the CBI in the reconstruction of the last few hours of Twisha, before she was found dead on May 12 this year, at her house at Bhopal.

In fact the gymnastics belt is very controversial as the family has been demanding that why the gymnastics belt with which the Twisha was allegedly hanged was not provided to doctors for 1st postmortem examination.

Dowry Death Allegations Under Investigation

Twisha Sharma was found dead on May 12, within months of her marriage with advocate Samarth Singh, the son of a retired principal district and sessions judge. Her family alleged that she had been subjected to dowry-related torture and her death had been staged to appear like a hanging and questioned the manner in which her body was found.

An FIR was lodged against her husband and his mother based on the complaint filed by her parents, following which her body was exhumed. The Supreme Court later transferred the case to the CBI which re-registered the FIR and took up the investigation.