Samarth Singh, the absconding husband of Bhopal "dowry death" victim Twisha Sharma, on Friday appeared at a Jabalpur court to surrender himself.
The lawyer, who has been on the run since his wife's dead body was found hanging on the terrace of their matrimonial house 10 days ago, had earlier indicated that he was mulling a surrender.
"He is here to surrender; he will surrender. We are moving an application before the CJM (Chief Judicial Magistrate) ... we will inform you of the result, however it goes," said Saurabh Sunder, Singh's advocate, to reporters.
#WATCH | Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh | Twisha Sharma death case: Twisha's husband and accused, Samarth Singh, arrives at the Jabalpur court. He was absconding in the case.
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In fact, Singh's surrender comes about an hour after his counsel withdrew his anticipatory bail plea in the Madhya Pradesh High Court.
This anticipatory bail plea had reached a single bench of Justice Avanindra Kumar Singh of the High Court on Thursday after it was rejected by a lower court.
However, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta—representing the Madhya Pradesh government—has strongly opposed the manner in which Singh was to surrender.
SG Mehta told the High Court that Samarth Singh had been absconding, and that the latter should surrender directly before the investigating officer, rather than going to a trial court to do so.
“(Samarth Singh) wants to surrender, I have no difficulty. But he has no locus standi to address the court on the second postmortem issue, which is solely between the victim’s family, the court and the state,” Mehta added, as per a Live Law report.
This comes amid pressure from Navnidhi Sharma, Twisha's father, to expedite the investigation as "the clock was ticking" for her body to decompose.
This is because at AIIMS Bhopal mortuary, where her body was kept, it was stored at -4ºC, while doctors had advised that it be kept at -80ºC for long-term preservation—a feature currently not available at AIIMS Bhopal.
With the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) now set to take over the case, her body will soon be moved to AIIMS Delhi, where a second postmortem will be conducted—as a result of her family alleging discrepancies with the first autopsy at AIIMS Bhopal.
