Bhopal dowry death case: Noida woman’s hanging sparks outrage; rtd judge gets anticipatory bail

A retired district judge and her advocate son have been booked in connection with the alleged dowry death of the latter’s wife in Madhya Pradesh’s Bhopal, police said.

The deceased, 31-year-old Twisha Sharma from Noida, was found hanging at her marital home in the Katara Hills area on the night of May 12, according to PTI. Police said Sharma had met the accused through a dating app in 2024, and the couple got married in December 2025.

“The accused and his mother rushed Twisha to a hospital, where she was declared dead on arrival by doctors. The police were alerted about the case by hospital authorities at around 11pm,” Katara Hills police station in-charge Sunil Kumar Dubey told PTI.

Police said Sharma’s family accused her in-laws of harassing her for dowry and alleged that she was murdered. Her relatives also claimed that she had been speaking to them over the phone until around 10 pm on Tuesday and had expressed a wish to leave Bhopal and return to Noida.

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Meanwhile, a Bhopal court on Friday granted anticipatory bail to the retired judge.

“The court granted anticipatory bail to the former judge, while the hearing on her son’s plea will take place on Monday,” her counsel told The Times of India.

A postmortem conducted at AIIMS Bhopal stated that “death is due to antemortem hanging by ligature”.

The autopsy report further noted: “Multiple antemortem injuries (simple in nature, possible by blunt force) over other parts of the body have been noted.”

According to forensic findings, blood and viscera samples preserved for toxicological analysis “rule out concomitant intoxication”.

The report also stated that nail clippings had been preserved for DNA analysis and noted that the ligature material was “neither present in situ nor submitted by IO for examination by us.”