Bhopal/New Delhi, May 23 -- What began as a romance on a dating app in 2024 has unravelled into one of the most consequential criminal cases in Madhya Pradesh in recent memory - involving allegations of dowry harassment, a suspicious death, an absconding husband, a retired judge mother-in-law accused of evidence tampering, and now the intervention of the country's highest legal regulatory body.

Twisha Sharma, 33, a former model and actress from Noida who had married Bhopal-based lawyer Samarth Singh just five months earlier, was found hanging at her matrimonial home in the Katara Hills area of Bhopal on the night of May 12, 2026. What the official post-mortem described as a hanging, her family described as something far more sinister - a...