India, Aug. 18 -- On Monday, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed a 636-page chargesheet against former district judge Giribala Singh and her son, advocate Samarth Singh, in connection with the suspicious death of model-turned-actor Twisha Sharma. The CBI has accused them of dowry death, cruelty in marriage, abetment to suicide, and acting together with criminal intent.

The chargesheet was filed before a special CBI court in Bhopal and lists Sections 80(2), 85, 108, and 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), along with Sections 3 and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. Section 80(2) is about dowry death, with a minimum sentence of seven years and up to life in prison. Section 85 covers cruelty by a husband or his relatives, an...