Sanjay Kumar said police have no objection to a second post-mortem of Twisha Sharma, with the final decision resting with the court.
Twisha’s family has sought a fresh autopsy at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, alleging injury marks were omitted from the first report and raising concerns over the investigation.
Police said teams are searching for Twisha’s absconding husband Samarth Singh, who, along with his mother Giribala Singh, has been booked in a dowry death and harassment case.
Bhopal Commissioner of Police Sanjay Kumar on Wednesday said they had no objection to a second post-mortem of Twisha Sharma, the daughter-in-law of a retired judge who was found hanging at her marital home here last week.
A local court here on Tuesday had summoned the police diary related to the case of 33-year-old Twisha, a Noida woman who was allegedly harassed for dowry, following a plea moved by her family seeking a second post-mortem at AIIMS Delhi.
“The family members of the deceased came to me and submitted an application. I told them police have no objection to another post-mortem,” Kumar told PTI. It was immediately not clear when the family submitted the application.
He said the application seeking a second autopsy has been attached to the case diary, but the permission for it rests with the court.
“Police are not averse to it. If a second post-mortem takes place, we have no objection. We have carried out our investigation and examined the evidence. These things take some time,” the police chief said.
Kumar said police teams have been formed to arrest Twisha’s husband, advocate Samarth Singh, who is absconding. Samarth and Twisha got married in December 2025.
The police commissioner’s statement came on the day a Judicial Magistrate First Class court is scheduled to examine the case diary on the plea moved by Twisha’s family seeking a fresh post-mortem examination.
In their application, the family alleged lapses in the investigation and pointed out that the FIR was registered three days after Twisha was found dead.
The plea also stated that the short post-mortem report mentioned that investigators had failed to provide the “ligature” allegedly used in the hanging during the autopsy process.
Advocate Ankur Pandey, appearing for the deceased woman’s family, had said earlier that they had sought a second post-mortem at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi.
Twisha was found dead on the night of May 12 at her marital home in Bhopal’s Katara Hills area. Police registered an FIR, charging her husband, advocate Samarth Singh, and her mother-in-law, Giribala Singh, with dowry death and harassment.
Pandey said Twisha’s parents feared that since Giribala Singh’s sister is a surgeon based in Bhopal, she could influence a second autopsy if it were conducted in the city.
He claimed the surgeon was seen near AIIMS Bhopal when the first post-mortem examination was conducted.
Twisha’s family has been demanding a second autopsy, alleging that injury marks on her body were not reflected in the initial post-mortem report.
During a press conference on Monday, Giribala Singh had said she visited the mortuary where Twisha’s family allegedly hounded her.
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