Disturbing WhatsApp chats, absconding husband: Chilling details emerge in Twishas death as family alleges dowry harassment

PTC News Desk: A 33-year-old MBA graduate and former beauty pageant contestant Twisha Sharma was found dead under suspicious circumstances at her matrimonial home in Bhopal’s Katara Hills area, barely five months after her marriage.

Since then the case has sparked massive public outcry across the country with the victim's family alleging dowry harassment, mental torture and possible foul play. 

Investigation into Twisha's death has unearthed disturbing elements with chats about feeling trapped, an absconding husband, conflicting claims of abuse and mental illness, and CCTV footage of her final moments. 

What happened ?

Twisha, who originally hails from Noida, Uttar Pradesh was found hanging at her in-laws’ home in Katara Hills area on May 12. What was initially being investigated as a suicide turned into a case of dowry death after her family alleged sustained harassment by in-laws. Her husband Samarth Singh and mother-in-law Giribala Singh, a retired judge, have been booked under charges related to dowry harassment and abettment to suicide.

The case has drawn significant traction over the family's legal background, multiple lapses in the investigation and the emergence of CCTV footage from the night of the incident.

Chilling chats about feeling ‘trapped’

WhatsApp messages shared by the woman’s family showed that she often felt emotionally distressed and unhappy in her marriage. She repeatedly described feeling “trapped”, “suffocated” and mentally exhausted.

In one message to her mother, she allegedly said, “These people won’t let me cry, nor give me a reason to smile.” In another, she wrote that she felt “badly trapped.” She also claimed that after she spoke about wanting to end her pregnancy, her husband accused her of carrying another man’s child. The chats suggest that she repeatedly asked her family to bring her back home from Bhopal.

Her messages to friends also reflected her emotional struggles. She allegedly advised one friend not to rush into marriage and said that being confined at home all day in Bhopal was causing her anxiety.

Meanwhile police are also probing why the family allegedly shifted the woman to hospital before informing authorities and whether there was a delay in treatment despite the hospital being nearby. According to the victim’s relatives, she was declared “not breathing” nearly 15 minutes after she last spoke to her mother on the phone.