New Delhi, July 12: The final forensic report of AIIMS Delhi in the Twisha Sharma death case has concluded that a gymnastics belt could have been used in the incident as it found the presence of the victim’s skin tissue on it, sources said.
The AIIMS Delhi medical board, which conducted a court-ordered second post-mortem on Twisha, submitted the report to the CBI on July 10, confirming that the alleged ligature material – the gymnastics belt with a metal ring at the end – matched the injury pattern on the victim’s neck, they said.
Former model-actress Twisha, who got married to lawyer Samarth Singh last December, was found hanging at her marital home in Bhopal on May 12.
The sources said the central probe agency is studying the report by AIIMS Delhi, which conducted a second post-mortem on Twisha on May 24, after the first autopsy at AIIMS Bhopal proved inconclusive as the alleged ligature material was not produced before its medical board.
Police seized the belt later and submitted it for inspection to the second medical board led by experts from AIIMS Delhi, they said.
The five-member board handed over its 11-page report to the CBI in a sealed cover, in compliance with a Madhya Pradesh High Court order.
A compliance report has also been sent to the registrar general of the high court, the sources said.
According to sources familiar with the findings, laboratory and histopathological examinations detected skin tissue on the belt, which corresponded with the ligature mark and injury pattern observed during the second post-mortem.
The report is expected to form a crucial piece of scientific evidence in the agency’s probe, the sources said.
According to the FIR lodged in the case, Samarth took Twisha to AIIMS Bhopal, where he claimed that she had hung herself at home at 10.20 pm on May 12.
However, a doctor at AIIMS Bhopal told police later that Twisha was brought dead to the hospital after which a medico-legal case was registered, the FIR said.
Twisha’s family had alleged that she was tormented by her in-laws, who were not satisfied with the dowry paid at the time of marriage. They also levelled allegations of mental torture and domestic violence, which allegedly pushed the 33-year-old former model-actor to take the extreme step. (PTI)
