New Delhi:
Navnidhi Sharma has spent days protesting outside the Chief Minister’s residence in Madhya Pradesh, demanding justice for his daughter Twisha Sharma and a second post-mortem on her body. Twisha’s husband, Samarth Singha lawyer in Bhopal, remains on the run after his bail was denied.
Navnidhi Sharma spoke to NDTV about the events leading to his 33-year-old daughter’s death.
“They met on a dating app. We came to know about this relationship about a year before marriage. And later we all agreed and gave approval to this relationship,” he told NDTV.
Twisha‘s husband, Samarth, and his mother, Giribala Singh, a retired judge, have been accused of murder and dowry harassment. On the question of dowry, Navnidhi Sharma described indirect pressures “common” in such cases.
#IndiaMatters with @shivaroor | “Daughters ignore a lot of things in order to save their marriage. We were prepared to call her back home, had booked our and her ticket. But she did not make it to the date of the ticket”: Twisha’s father Navnidhi Sharma pic.twitter.com/ITUH7PG5hA
— NDTV (@ndtv) May 18, 2026
“Look, in today’s time, dowry is such a word that people demand in various ways without using it. They create a situation in which money is taken out of your pocket. No one says that give me dowry,” he said.
Navnidhi Sharma said demands arose around standards and expenses. After the marriage, taunts followed.
“After Twisha lost her job, their taunts started: ‘How will we feed you?’ All these things came out,” he said. The first clear sign of trouble surfaced during the honeymoon.
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“It’s right in the beginning, because in the beginning, a man does not attack so suddenly. His attitude was seen in the beginning as a criminal mindset — a man who can push his wife by getting angry for some reason on her honeymoon at the airport. Twisha then asked her brother, ‘Have I taken a wrong decision?’
“Her brother said no, sometimes a man gets a little impulsive in something, so don’t take it seriously, ignore that. We should not have ignored,” Navnidhi Sharma told NDTV. “Daughters ignore a lot of things to save their marriage.”
Navnidhi Sharma described Twisha’s husband as a “wolf in sheep’s clothing”.
“If you look at their history, even their first daughter-in-law had also divorced due to harassment,” he said. “A lot of assurances were given, which later did not materialise.”
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Twisha was discovered hanging at her husband’s house in Bhopal’s Katara Hills area on May 12.
Messages between Twisha and her mother detailed her growing distress. On April 30 she wrote: “Why sent me here? He is not talking here..” (Why did you send me to Bhopal? He isn’t talking to me.) Calling Bhopal and creating drama again. (He called me to Bhopal only to stage the same old drama all over again.) My life has become hell mummy.” (My life has become a living hell, Mom.)
On May 7 she pleaded: “Mother, please come tomorrow to pick me up from here..” (Please come and pick me up from here tomorrow.)
She said it seemed her husband no longer needed her and had been “tolerating” her for a year. She asked her mother to come alone.
Twisha also wrote about feeling lonely and blamed her “bad deeds” for her situation. She alleged her husband questioned the paternity of her child and forced an abortion. In messages sent on May 9 she said: “I am asking what was left, and what should I ignore??? …He has crossed every limit of his own destiny. How do you stay with him?.” (He is asking me whose child it was and you expect me to just ignore it? … He has crossed every limit. How am I supposed to live with him?)
She told her mother: “Mummy I am just going crazy over here. I don’t feel like staying here with all this..” (Mom, I’m going to go crazy here. I just can’t take this anymore.)
Twisha claimed her husband demanded that her father apologise by rubbing his nose on the ground. She described her husband and mother-in-law as ruthless and said she felt suffocated. “I am feeling very tired, mother..” (I feel suffocated, Mother.) “These people will not cry, they will not feel the need to laugh. Main to bhaut buri tarah hu gayi hu.” (These people won’t let me cry, nor will they give me any reason to laugh. I’ve gotten myself trapped.)
In her final exchanges, Twisha said she did not feel like talking to anyone. She told her mother that if spoken to normally, she would respond in kind. “If you talk normally then I will also do it. I don’t think anything is happening here..” (If he talks normally, then I will too. It’s not like I’m enjoying being here.)
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