Five months after actor-model Twisha Sharma was found dead under suspicious circumstances at her marital home in Bhopal, the CBI on Monday filed a chargesheet which reveals the details of the last message she sent. Twisha (33) was found dead under suspicious circumstances at her marital home in Bhopal on May 12, just five months after her marriage to Samarth.
The CBI has charged Giribala and her son Samarth with abetment to suicide, while keeping the probe into claims of dowry demands and alleged dowry death open.
In the 1,000-page chargesheet, the CBI details the cruelty inflicted on Twisha and who did what to her, including the mental harassment she was subjected to. The chargesheet also details the account of the last text Twisha sent to her sister-in-law minutes before her alleged death. Twisha is said to have hanged herself using a gymnastics rope.
The text message sent by Twisha to her sister-in-law Rashi Abrol at 9:36 pm on May 12, 2026, became the main focus of the investigation and allegedly indicated "mental harassment" by her husband and mother-in-law, which led her to commit suicide.
The digital trail of messages and calls began at 7.51 pm, when Twisha called Abrol, alleging that Samarth was pressuring her to transfer a Rs 20 lakh investment to invest in the Chinese stock market, which she had refused. Over the next hour, over 34 messages were exchanged between Twisha’s and Samarth’s families as Twisha's mother desperately tried to reach Samarth and his mother, Giribala Singh, to intervene.
The exchanges showed that the situation was turning volatile by 9.20 pm, when Twisha called Abrol again crying and alleging that she had requested Samarth to sleep in a separate bedroom because of her "back pain", resulting in a violent outburst from Samarth and then the call ended abruptly.
When Abrol attempted to call back at 9.29 pm, Twisha was sobbing and the line got disconnected. Her last text came at 9.36 pm: "Ask him to collect the leftovers of his wife. But tomorrow. Let me die in peace right now."
The CCTV footage from the residence captured Twisha going alone towards the terrace at 9.40 pm. A minute later, her father got a WhatsApp call. Twisha's father found her crying, complaining that Samarth had become "very aggressive and violent". She also requested her family to come to Bhopal immediately.
Twisha then called her mother, Rekha Rani Sharma, at 10.05 pm when she repeated about Samarth's aggression.
After that, Rekha Rani made multiple calls to Twisha, but they went unanswered. Rekha Rani then contacted Samarth and Giribala Singh, who too did not respond to her multiple calls. Giribala did not answer her calls until 10.10 pm. Rekha Rani told Giribala that Twisha was crying a lot, following which the retired judge left her room to check on Twisha at 10.16 pm, according to visuals captured on the CCTV.
After finding the ground floor empty, she called Twisha's phone at 10.18 pm, which remained unanswered. Five minutes later, Samarth and his mother were seen on camera heading toward the terrace where Twisha was found hanging by a "gymnastic belt".
Meanwhile, the postmortem and subsequent medical board at AIIMS Delhi concurred with the opinion that it was a case of suicide.
"The cause of death is asphyxia as a result of ante-mortem hanging, which is suicidal in manner, produced by the examined ligature material, the gymnastic belt with a ring. No other injuries of medico-legal importance were found on the body of the deceased suggestive of assault/scuffle before death," according to the charge sheet.
However, the agency is still awaiting complete forensic extraction of Twisha and Samarth's phones and DVR of the CCTVs in Giribala Singh's home in Bhopal, which would have captured the incidents of May 12.
