Twisha Sharma death case: AIIMS forms 4-member medical board for second autopsy, team to leave for Bhopal

NEW DELHI: A medical board comprising four senior doctors from AIIMS Delhi will fly to Bhopal later on Saturday to conduct a second autopsy of actor-model Twisha Sharma in her alleged dowry death case.The development comes a day after the Madhya Pradesh high court ordered a second autopsy of her body by a specialised AIIMS Delhi team.Dr Sudhir Gupta, chief of forensic medicine at the premier hospital, said he constituted the medical board with the director’s approval.“The team, along with the latest instruments, will fly by a state-chartered plane at 6 pm today,” Dr Gupta told PTI.He added that Twisha Sharma’s body is currently being kept at the mortuary of AIIMS Bhopal.Meanwhile, her husband Samarth Singh was brought to Bhopal in the early hours of Saturday and was later sent to seven-day police custody by a city court. An advocate by profession, he had been on the run for 10 days and was taken into custody by Jabalpur Police when he came to surrender at a city court.Also Read | Twisha Sharma death case: Advocate husband Samarth Singh’s legal licence suspendedEarlier, Singh withdrew his anticipatory bail plea and his mother Giribala Singh, a retired judge, was served a notice for the cancellation of her bail over alleged non-cooperation with the police.Twisha Sharma, a native of Noida, Uttar Pradesh, was found dead at her marital home in Bhopal’s Katara Hills area on May 12.While her in-laws have alleged that she was battling drug addiction, her family has maintained that she was harassed for dowry, which led to her death.