India, June 2 -- Giribala Singh, a retired judge accused in her daughter-in-law's death case, alleged during a heated hearing on Tuesday that her and her co-accused son Samarth Singh's lives are in danger. She also sought a stop on what she described was media trial, saying that they are being followed everywhere.

Twisha Sharma, a woman in her 30s, was found dead on May 12 at her marital home in Madhya Pradesh's Bhopal, a death initially suspected to be a suicide but later led to an investigation with allegations against her husband - Samarth - and mother-in-law Giribala Singh of harassment as well as dowry demands.

Amid the investigation into the death of Twisha Singh, the circumstances around which remain a mystery, Giribala Singh has...