'Ghar Pe Judge Twisha Di': Laughing Bride, 'Fake Chats' & A 'Dowry' Death With No Answers Yet

Last Updated:May 22, 2026, 12:37 IST

Former judge, now accused mother-in-law Giribala Singh moves court, calls viral WhatsApp chats and audio clips 'fabricated'.

A five-minute wedding video. Cinematic lighting. A laughing bride who jokes with the priest, teases her brother, and promises to “kick her husband out of his room." Today, that same video — and the woman in it — are at the centre of one of Madhya Pradesh’s most sensational dowry death cases.

The Bride Who Lit Up Every Frame

Twisha Sharma, 33, model and actress, was everything her wedding video promised she would be: sharp-tongued, warm, effortlessly funny.

Relatives from both sides crowd the frame — joking, emotional, dancing — as the newly-married couple stands at the centre of it all. At one point, a family member turns to the camera and declares: “Jiju lawyer honge court mein, ghar pe toh judge Twisha Di hi hogi." The line lands to laughter.

Nobody in that frame could have imagined that within weeks, the courtroom would become real — and Twisha would not be in it.

She was found dead on May 12 at her matrimonial home in Bhopal’s Katara Hills. Her family has accused her husband, lawyer Samarth Singh, and his mother, former district judge Giribala Singh, of dowry harassment and abetment to suicide.

Police have registered an FIR under sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita related to dowry death and cruelty, as well as provisions of the Dowry Prohibition Act.

Samarth Singh remains absconding, with a Lookout Circular issued and a reward of Rs 30,000 announced for information leading to his arrest.

Who Was The Woman In That Video?

Watch the wedding trailer and you see someone who resisted every sentimental cliché of the genre. When the priest monopolises camera time, Twisha laughs and calls out: “Pandit ji, chhod do usko… shaadi mere se karni hai, aapse nahi."

When asked what she’ll miss most after marriage, she begins emotionally — “my parents, my room" — then immediately pivots to a joke about evicting Samarth from his own bedroom.

Her relatives describe her as “upar se hard, andar se soft — like coconut." Her brother jokes they were once “sworn enemies."

A family member recalls the moment Twisha first saw Samarth’s matrimonial profile: “She said, ‘Ye banda kitna sahi hai’." Samarth himself, seated beside her in one clip, acknowledges it would be hard for Twisha to leave Noida. She laughs it off: “Otherwise I will bring Samarth to Noida."

That laughter is now a ghost.

What Does The Digital Evidence Actually Show?

This is where the case gets complicated — and contested. Twisha’s family has claimed she sent messages to multiple people in the days before her death expressing distress, including alleged chats containing the phrase “I am trapped." They have petitioned the court to preserve CDR records, location data, and CCTV footage from AIIMS Bhopal.

But Giribala Singh — herself a former district judge, now an accused — has moved the magistrate court with a counter-claim: that the WhatsApp chats and audio clips circulating on social media are fabricated.

She has demanded that the mobile phones of Twisha’s relatives and acquaintances be seized and subjected to digital forensic examination to trace the origin of the material.

She has also raised questions about the CCTV footage seized from her home, claiming the DVR’s contents were not formally recorded during seizure, and that a timestamp discrepancy of over two days exists in the footage — attributed, her application claims, to irregular maintenance of the eight cameras at the property by a private agency.

Who Will Be Believed — And When?

Legal experts say the case now hinges almost entirely on digital forensics: whether the chats are authentic, whether the CCTV timeline holds, and what the call records reveal. Both sides are in court fighting over the same evidence — one to preserve it, one to scrutinise its source.

Meanwhile, Samarth Singh’s anticipatory bail plea is listed before Justice Avinendra Kumar Singh’s vacation bench. A sessions court has already denied him relief. Twisha’s family has challenged Giribala Singh’s bail in the Madhya Pradesh High Court.

The wedding video keeps circulating. The bride who joked she’d be the judge at home never got the chance. Now, that question — who will judge, and how — falls to the courts.

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