The case of Twisha Sharma has become an intriguing, twists-and-turns affair, with fresh turns in the legal and investigative wings. Twisha’s family has taken its case to a court in Bhopal to obtain access to the post-mortem report and the team of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) working in the city have finished questioning what they had been doing in the city and are now based in Delhi. The case has been developing with new evidence and legal proceedings that are increasingly going deeper and deeper.
Twisha Sharma’s family has filed an application in the district court in Bhopal for obtaining a copy of the post-mortem report. The document is necessary to get the government-issued death certificate from the township which refused to issue the certificate without the postmortem results, the family said. The application was heard by the Judicial Magistrate First Class who accepted the plea, after issuing notices to the municipal birth and death registration department, AIIMS Delhi, AIIMS Bhopal of the CBI for response with regards to the report.
The CBI team, which had been deputed in Bhopal for a few days, meanwhile has returned to Delhi where it carried out an intensive questioning process in the case. Investigators reportedly took cues from several leads, and met with several people around, including those who they felt were somehow connected to the ongoing investigation.
The agency will now be concentrating on investigating digital evidence, mobile phone records, electronic communications and witness statements it has gathered during the investigation, sources say. The materials may be crucial in determining the events that led to Twisha Sharma’s death, officials say.
The case continues to be closely watched by the public and the court and is currently undergoing a digital review by investigators, who will continue to work on the case in the next few weeks.