A court in Madhya Pradesh has rejected the bail plea filed by Samarth Singh, who is accused in the alleged dowry death case of his wife, Twisha Sharma.
Samarth Singh claimed that the investigation is not yet complete and merely to fulfil the requirement of filing chargesheet within 90 days the State has filed an incomplete chargesheet on 87th day.
It was stated that the report of CBI filed on August 17 was a bundle of papers and not a chargesheet.
Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Shobhna Bhalave however noted that the chargesheet filed by the CBI cannot be considered incomplete merely over absence of some documents
Twisha, a 33-year-old woman, was found dead at her matrimonial home in Bhopal on May 12. An FIR has been lodged under BNS Sections 80(2) (dowry death), 85 (cruelty), and 3(5) (common intention) and Sections 3 (giving or taking dowry) and 4 (demanding dowry) of the Dowry Prohibition Act.
His mother, Giribala Singh's bail plea is pending before the High Court. The High Court has directed her to amend her plea, after the CBI dropped the dowry death charge against her and instead charged her with abetment of suicide under Section 108 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
CBI was handed over the case following the Supreme Court's intervention.
Earlier, on May 29, the Bhopal court had sent the mother-son duo to CBI custody for 5 days. Thereafter, on June 2, they were sent to 14 days' judicial custody. The same was extended on June 16 for 14 days.
Samarth Singh was denied anticipatory bail in the case by the trial court. He had later approached the High Court, but withdrew the petition with permission to surrender.
Giribala was granted anticipatory bail by the trial court on May 15, on the grounds that the FIR and WhatsApp chats were directly against her son. Aggrieved, the State, as well as Twisha's parents, moved the High Court, which on May 27 quashed her anticipatory bail.