A retired judge and her lawyer son were booked for dowry-related offences after her daughter-in-law was found dead at their house in Bhopal, a police official said on Friday.
Twisha Sharma (33) was found hanging at her house in Katara Hills here on Tuesday night, the official said.
Sharma had met her husband, Bhopal-based lawyer Samarth Singh, through a dating app in 2024 and subsequently got married in December 2025, as per police.
“Samarth and his mother, retired judge Giribala Singh, rushed Twisha to a hospital, where she was declared dead on arrival by doctors. Police was alerted by hospital authorities at around 11 pm," he said.
Katara Hills police station in-charge Sunil Dubey told PTI that the woman’s maternal family, hailing from Noida, has accused her in-laws of murder.
Her kin have claimed that she talked to them on phone till around 10 pm on Tuesday and wanted to leave Bhopal and return to Noida, the official said.
“A case of dowry death and dowry harassment has been registered against Giribala and Samarth. Efforts are being made to arrest them," Additional Police Commissioner (Zone-2) Gautam Solanki said.
