"We saw horror": Family on Noida woman's death 5 months after wedding

The final 15 minutes before Twisha's death have become the biggest focus of the investigation. According to the family, Twisha called her mother at 10.05 pm, spoke about the alleged harassment at her matrimonial home, before the call suddenly disconnected when her husband entered the room. The family then repeatedly tried contacting Twisha, her husband, mother-in-law, but received no response. At 10.15 pm, mother-in-law Giribala Singh answered the call and was asked to immediately check on Twisha. Just 5 minutes later, at 10.20 pm, the family was informed that Twisha was not breathing, raising serious questions about what happened during those crucial minutes. So this is Ashish Sharma, who's Tvisha's cousin, and Navnidhi Sharma, who's Tvisha's father. Both are joining us on the broadcast. Namaskar. Thank you very much for talking to us. It's a difficult time for your family. But I would like to know from you, how satisfied is the family with the work done by the police so far? And there is no doubt that the other party is an influential party. They have their own influential background. Is he influencing the fairness and objectivity of this criminal investigation? Mr. Ashish. Yes, madam, absolutely. The moment we realized that our daughter has passed, the moment we called that she is no more, the three words that were spoken to us, we immediately started from Delhi, from The family came here and after coming here, all we are seeing, all we have witnessed is horror when we saw the dead body of my sister, the injuries that she was carrying, the continuous denial in admitting the crime, the repeated and continuous approach of the police to not get the FIR registered. The continuous struggle that we had, the entire family running from pillar to post, sometimes sitting on one thana, sometimes on the other thana, the women commission, the mahila thana, the human rights commission, the office of the commissioner of the police, we were made to run from pillar to post. And it was only after 3 days, that too at 2.30 in the morning of the night of 15th that the FIR was registered. That too in a very shoddy manner. Thereafter, we have been witnessing the grant of bail almost uncontested, the proceedings conducted under undue pressure in the chamber of the judiciary, the family heckled outside the chamber. What makes the courts getting changed not once, not twice, thrice, even the fourth time from 9.30 to 5 till in the evening, the courts are getting changed. There must be some certain reason behind it. What was the reason or have we committed any crime that a mob of people was just outside the chamber of the justice pinching the female members of the family, the grieved mother was continuously commented upon that daughters they are killing themselves for the sake of money, for extracting money thereafter It was only when the Indian army came for our rescue, when we were cordoned that we felt protected and more importantly and beyond our imaginations, the bail was granted no idea that whether in such cases where the death has occurred just 5 months and the bail has been granted on grounds which are totally unexplainable, non admittable Even after that we are continuously reaching out to authorities None of the person, not a single person in the entire state has the courage to stand along with us We have been sitting outside the honourable CM's house for a very short hearing Just to request him please do something for this, please get it, please get the authorities, do their work Ashishji please allow me as I hear your ordeal and my empathy and my understanding with you I have been a student of law and I am a student of law and I know how difficult it is for families to get an FIR registered in this country And specially when somebody in front of you has the power and might and influence over the system extreme situations, and he has indicated this to me many times, that if I don't get what I want, I will leave him and come, I don't want to live with him anymore. I have told my daughter many times, that son, sometimes wrong decisions are made, we will accept that we have made a big mistake, and when you feel that way, then you can leave. and he had also made his tickets, which were deliberately cancelled. We also had tickets to go, we were going to take him, they were also cancelled. He has been murdered under a very suspicious conspiracy. And I do not want to hesitate to say this today, I want to tell you openly, he has very close relatives who were MPs of Lokayug, whose name is Mr. Satyendra Singh. and till date, the system of helplessness that I have come to see that no one will stand against Lokayugd, who will stand against Judiciary, who will stand against Lokayugd this is clearly visible it was my right to get my daughter's PM2 done I was being forced from the first day that I should take the body and criminalize her so that all her evidence is destroyed I applied for the body PM2 yesterday, the commissioner approved it and then I came to know that the commissioner is under some pressure, whatever the reason. He said that you will have to take permission from the judiciary. When permission from the judiciary means that the court has an anticipatory bail of the other Samar Singh. I will have to spend a lot of time to get the diary engaged at one place and to do it at another place. The body was kept at 3 to 5 degrees while they knew it was going to go for PM2. When I gave the application in the morning and when people left, the body was kept at minus 4 degrees after special stress. This is a very serious matter and we have lost hope of justice. If the local youth are directly involved here and their relatives are involved, and there are many other places like hospitals and other administrations where their people and relatives are spread out, we don't think we will be able to get justice from here, where we, the CM, also seem helpless. Mr. Ramnidhi, please tell us something about the role of the police. I would like to ask you a question. Whenever there is an incident, The victim's family goes to the police. What was the role of the police in this? The police administration comes under the judiciary. The judiciary is giving us justice. The police is working under the judiciary. Who is not under the Lokayukht? Look at the gravity of this. Who can stand in front of the Lokayukht? Today, this system has so much power, if it is involved with someone, then who has the authority to go and work against it or not work in support of it. Everyone will say that we will do the best work, don't worry, but have you seen that no work has been good so far, now we are struggling so much for PM2, we are being put in such a situation that we are breathing our own breath. The system has completely blocked us. Today, our only hope is the CGI and the Chief Justice of India who can intervene and get us out of this big dilemma assuming it to be a rare case. The SIT should be gathered in their presence so that we get a chance to investigate. The body should be sent to AIIMS Delhi as soon as possible for post-mortem 2 We have written applications to the Chief Justice of India and we are writing them again. We are writing our request to him and we want to make him aware of the situation. And we would like to request them through the media to please consider our plea. How can a poor man fight in front of such big people? And how dangerous is a judicial system for a common man? That your file is not there, that the court is not there. In such a long time, my daughter's voice will be decomposed and the truths that can be found will be destroyed. I am very scared. Mr. Ashish, can you tell me the details of the FIR that the police have registered? What kind of FIR is it? What are the offences that they have registered in this FIR? Madam, this FIR is a fraudulent FIR where the charges have not been adequately framed. When there is a absolute and very clear foul play no provision to investigate a murder has been made in that FIR And the charges also have been very nominal so that a cover up can be made So they are basically harassing us as he has rightly mentioned so that we give up It's a very typical case. Tushar is not the first and the last daughter that have been killed. There are thousands of deaths related to dowry, harassment that are happening. Daughters, sisters are losing their life by killing themselves or getting killed. It is only the matter that we are putting up a fight and as he mentioned that this entire system is ensuring that we get exhausted this entire system surprisingly as I mentioned earlier also that not a single authority has taken for last five days the media has been covering our ordeal but we have not been approached by anyone whoever we approached either denied us a meet as happened today or simply assured something which was in namesake. Navnidhi ji, jab bhi koi pita apni beti ki, bachi ki shadi karte hain, toh acche se accha ghar, acche se accha parivaar dekh kar karte hain. Magar hamare samajh mein, ek anti-dowry act hone ke baavjood, ek dahej ke khilafe kaanoon hone ke baavjood bhi, lenden ki parampara, ya dahej dene ki parampara, aaj bhi chali aa rahi hai aur isme koi do rai nahi hai, yeh khule aam hota hai, aaj bhi hota hai. In all these matrimonial disputes, we talk about women, money, dowry, when there is a problem in the court. Before marriage, was there any condition or condition put in front of you for any kind of dowry or any kind of condition? Mr. Nagnidhi. Conditions are created in such a way that you give without asking. You are being forced to understand that you are being asked for dowry because you are literate and you know the law, so asking for dowry is a crime. They don't ask for dowry directly, but indirectly they pressurize you. For example, on the day of the rape, they got angry at something and made an issue that we will take the bride back. So they ran away, people settled and came. So what is this settlement? This settlement is a dowry. And if you see that the girl was fine till the time she was doing her job and as soon as she left her job, they started torturing her in every possible way. This is a very shameful act of Nimrukoti, which is coming to the fore. It's a chameleon family, sir. It's a chameleon family who are designing everything. If a person has a criminal mindset, he is already prepared, he is a lawyer and he is also a judge. So he knows what he has to preserve so that he can use it as evidence in the future. If you look at all his talks, if you look at all his course of events, it seems that he had pre-planned the murder. So you are saying that he did not ask you for any evidence openly. But the things that are asked for even without asking, in Indian marriages, have happened to you? What I mean to say is that, as you said, by pressurizing, they said that you have not done any work according to our standards. Mr. Navneeti, I have one last question for you. Did Twisha ever tell you in open words that she is being beaten up, there is some physical harassment, there is mental harassment? You mentioned that she was doing mental harassment, but was she physically harassed? Yes, she was physically harassed. When she went to Vietnam for her honeymoon trip, she got a call from her brother. She was complaining that she couldn't read the flight timings properly and there was a delay. Samarth couldn't bear it. He was going on a honeymoon trip after marriage. He gave a big push to the girl, very badly, at the airport. She called me crying and said that what kind of husband is this? I am going on a honeymoon trip and he is behaving like this. Harshit, who couldn't understand her, told her that it's a matter of husband and wife. Sometimes it happens. But that was the initial stage. The person who can show so much anger on his honeymoon trip, after that you can hope. So many times the girl said that he used to abuse her in many ways, he used to adopt many methods of abusing her. He has also told his friends secret talks, which I can't tell you on TV right now. Yes, Mr. Ashish, Twisha's Instagram chats or WhatsApp chats, she must have talked to many people before this incident. What did you and your family learn from her social media accounts? Is there any information that you would like to share with people? We hope that our administration, justice system is listening to all this. On our screens right now viewers are the messages, the Instagram chats of Twisha. This is right before that unfortunate incident happened where she lost her life. And she has said in that chat, and I'm quoting, I am trapped this is the chat of Twisha from her Instagram account I have the family with me let me cut across to Aashish his her cousin who is with us on the broadcast we also have her father but Aashish I was asking you the same question that this is a chat of Twisha on Instagram in which she is telling her friend that I am trapped completely Tell us what you know about Tusha and what was happening with her. Tusha was a very ambitious girl. She was able to take her own decisions. She had a life span of 31 years. She always set an example of confidence and achievements. not just for our family, but she was for her friends. She was Miss Pune 2010. Apart from that, as you said, she had acted in various movies. I would like to add on to this, madam. Tarita Shankar is the overall chairperson of Pune Indira University. Yes. Aur unhone bhi aaj Pune ke andar protest poore Indira College mein Pune mein organise hua hai. Yeh baat ka idi, she was the brightest child or lovable child of Indira College, Pune, Indira Group of Universities. To jo aap chairperson unke aaj har tarike se tayar hai seho karne ke liye, bole aaj mere paas phone aaya unka, Sir, aapko jo bhi hum se support chahiye, leeji itni achchi beti thi ye, itna dynamic iska wo tha. She was leading from front. She was a movie actor, Telugu ki feature films uski release hoi. She was a model, perfect model who has promoted lot many brands like Dove, L'Oreal as well as, and she was very known to this Telugu industry and very well known to this Telugu industry earlier. So what I was trying to tell is that being such a bold and confident lady The moment she came into that house which was as he rightly mentioned a family which was something else when you see from the outside and inside its a different story She was getting suppressed day by day, she was mentioning torture This was a lot in various ways like proving herself and I am quoting she has mentioned in the chats that I am referred as good for nothing So, and there are many other things that she shared with us. So, in that house she was continuously denied dignity She was communicating this to us. In the last days of her life she lost 15 kg of her weight and this went beyond torment and some way or the other her life was ended on the night of 12th But before that she suffered a lot in a very short span of time and her entire dignity and her basic, the… Deprived of basic rights. Basic rights. We were deprived. Everything that she stood for. I understand Ashishji and unfortunately in our country we report as journalists. Yes, yes, exactly. Everything she stood, yeah. Yeah, everything she she was and it is so sad to lose this bright young woman The manner in which this entire case has been handled, but she she Navneet Navni DG Thank you so much for joining us on the broadcast Apeke parivar ke saath humaari prarthanai hain and I really hope that the Indian justice system takes Cognizance of what you are going through. I hope the Supreme Court listens to your petition There's a letter petition that you're writing to the Supreme Court Yeh kanun aam aadmi ke liye nahi wala hai Yeh samajh mein aa gaya Unfortunately, that is the reality of our system, sir. My condolences to you and your family, sir. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you so much for joining us on the broadcast. We'll keep a track of the story. This story is far from over because the family has not got justice. They even go on to say that the FIR is shoddy. The body of the victim of Dwisha is still waiting for a proper post-mortem. The family says the body was not stored properly. We'll keep a track of the story. Of course, this remains our focus here on NDTV.