Twisha’s Friends Reveal How Giribala Controlled Her Even Before Marriage To Barkha Dutt | EXCLUSIVE

Added: 2026-05-30

[00:00:31]Are the wheels of justice finally beginning to turn in the Twisha Sharma death case? A case where more and more and more evidence, much of it reported here on our channel is pointing to a clear case of assault, killing and murder and not suicide as was claimed by Giribala Singh and her son Samad Singh.

[00:00:54]We're talking of course about a case that has really really ignited fury and anguish across India. A woman in her 30s married for a little over 5 months found dead in her mother-in-law's house. Her mother-in-law a former judge her husband a lawyer who goes absconding as soon as she is found dead in the most suspicious of circumstances. As we reported, Giribala Singh then tries to tamper with evidence by not just calling the CCTV technician for footage of her own house, which is now a crime scene. She calls even the beauty parlor her daughter-in-law visited to try and secure that CCTV footage. The agenda seems clear. She was clearly trying to tamper with evidence, something that the Madhya Pradesh government has now said in court. On the program today, we'll be bringing you shocking new details revealed to us by her family on how Giribbala Singh and her two sisters tried to influence the investigation.

[00:01:55]One of Giribala Singh's sisters is a doctor and she was the one who alongside Giribala Singh trying to twist the finding and the outcome of the first postbottom which is why a second autopsy became absolutely imperative. Even as the wheels of justice turn, the big question is now this. Because Giri Bala Singh had anticipatory bail, she had free access to the scene of crime which was her own home for 48 hours. She could have done anything in those 48 hours including tampering with evidence, erasing evidence and also planting evidence. And no wonder then that Major Harshit Disha's brother, his wife, Dr. Rashi told me that Giribbala sickens me.

[00:02:38]Well, Rashi, I can tell you this, Giribbala sickens all of us. I'm Barkadat, your with the Mojo story. On the program today, it was time for a judge to appear in court as an accused.

[00:02:51]This is the image, the defining image of the day. The CBI producing Giribala Singh in the special court as the Tisha Sharma killing is now being tried by this court. Already the high court had quashed her anticipatory bail and she was arrested along with her son of course Sam Singh who was already in custody. Now for the next 5 days Girib Bala Singh is going to be in the custody of the CBI. Meanwhile the family continues to try and find space to grieve and mourn. You can see in these pictures the brother of Twisha Major Hershit along with other members of the family in Rishies performing rituals remembering their sister. As Hashid told me, his moment, his time for grieving has not even come. All he's been doing all this while is running from pillar to post to try and get justice for his sister. Those wheels are turning, but they aren't spinning yet. And there are mounting questions over whether the lawyer mother duo have already managed to tamper with evidence or manipulate it. Many experts believe that one of the reasons that Samad Singh went into hiding was that if he used drugs as Giribbala Singh has confessed to on a private audio recording that we've played for you then was he using that time to flush out the drugs from his bloodstream so that when he's medically tested there's no sign of them. There is, of course, also, as I've already mentioned, Girib Bala Singh's access to the scene of crime, her desperate attempts to get CCTV footage, and not even to mention the crazy misogyny that she's been guilty of in interviews, in her press conferences, including one with me. On the program today, we have four very special women coming here, not just as young women themselves, but also as friends and family of Twisha. I want to welcome them one by one. Klani, a friend of Thisha, is on the program with me. Kuml thank you for your time. Manika Mehotra who's you've seen her on our programs before a friend of Twisha is also with us. Thank you Monika. Also joining us is Yukta Sharma. She's Twisha's cousin and we thank you uh Yukta. And also back with us is Samira Seahel. Samira told us a very important um anecdote of how she when she was getting divorced Tisha encouraged her to stand on her own two feet and that's one of the reasons she can never believe that Thisha would take her own life. I think that theory is increasingly collapsing. Thank you very much. Um, you know, I know that women who don't even know Twisha are facing uh or going through some sort of personal anguish.

[00:05:19]Many have written to us sharing stories, their own stories. It's touched a cord everywhere. Um, I had a woman call me today talking about what happened in her marriage years ago. So I think really I think Twisha has inspired a critical conversation across India and I really want to thank all four of you with with really folded hands because I know you're in pain and I think to come out in pain and talk is not easy. So thank you uh to all four of you. I just want to start by playing out um I spoke with Major Harshett and Major Harshett's wife Rashi who's also a doctor yesterday and what they revealed you know we've all suspected that Giribbala Singh has been trying to influence um and tamper with evidence and Dr. Rashi because she's a doctor um and also a young woman married into the family. She spoke about Giribala Singh with such emotions. She said Giribala sickens me. And she went on to tell us for the first time how Giribala's sister who's also a doctor tried to basically manipulate the findings of the postmortem. Take a look.

[00:06:23]as a woman. I just wonder leaving everything else as a young woman Rashi, it must have made your blood boil.

[00:06:31]>> Ma'am, it sickens me. It sickens me to see a woman uh with qualification like hers as Mrs. Giribbala's.

[00:06:39]uh the sophistication that she carries and the way she goes about um it sickens me ma'am that women of her qualification are still around us still speaking and thinking like that in fact I've also had I mean not everybody but I've had the chance uh unfortunate chance to also listen to her sister Mrs. Girala Singh sister speak and that was absolutely sickening ma'am I I am very very fortunate just like others are and there are plenty others who are not that fortunate as I am I would say ma'am openly that we have parents I have parents I have in-laws and I have a family where we do not have to be worried about things and about such things but the fact that there are women like Mrs. Gir Bala Singh and her sister it it's horrific mom and it it just complet it's not even anything that I'm shocked about because there are plenty other women like her still living but the fact that she's a judge she still uh continues to be in that position she still continues to go about her chores and her work and the fact that she carries such a mentality I cannot speak much more but the fact that it's absolutely horrific and disgusting >> these people are progressive on paper but regressive in nature Well said.

[00:07:59]>> She's holding so many degrees. What is the point of it all when your thought process and uh your statements, your judgments are like this? It is sickening to see and to hear.

[00:08:16]I think that's really well said that progressive on progressive on paper but regressive in in in reality. You know Major Harshid Rashi mentioned Giribala Singh's sister. This sister actually has a key role in this case because uh in the court the AG argued while asking for Giribala's bail to be cancelled that the postmortem uh could have been the first one could have been influenced because Giribal Singh's sister was present. So I just wonder if you want to say a little bit about that.

[00:08:46]>> She has two sisters ma'am. The first one being the one that uh my wife was just talking about.

[00:08:51]uh I do not know her profession exactly but she could be heard in the same clip uh you know supporting Gibbala in whatever wild statements that she's trying to justify.

[00:09:05]So I feel the mentality that they hold is not just one person holding it. It is the possibly the nature that they always had. The other sister who is a doctor, she was very well there and the first call that was made though I'm not supposed to actually discuss many of the things so I would just avoid it but she was very well present at a site that she can handle things and use her position and use her uh you know the fact that she's a doctor to their advantage. um the fact that uh one of the doctors again as we could cannot speak much but ma'am it's uh I'm a doctor myself and uh when I spoke to Mrs. Giribbala that I need to speak to the doctor at the hospital that you've taken Trisha to I was handed over and I mean the phone was given to a doctor and when I tried to you know explain the doctor that please continue with your procedure as it's supposed to be considering there are problems in the family the first thing I was told that I am a family member myself and I forced the family member who's a doctor who happens to be a doctor I asked I need to speak to the doctor who's treating the patient who's had the casualty >> and yet there There was no response at the end but I was handed I was given the phone. The phone was given to one of the sisters who happens to be a doctor of Mrs. Gibbala and she tried to mislead me and my entire family regarding the situation pertaining to Mrs. Visha Sharma. So the fact that they all have been together trying to mislead us, trying to uh you know I mean I believe it is there it comes to their nature to you that they can defend their sons and their actions which are again absolutely horrific again I would say but it doesn't take them less than a second to come point fingers at somebody else and they will not leave any chance to you know defame to accuse you and slander you right, left and center. So this is I this is what I've learned lately that this is how they >> Yeah. Um firstly the fact that the sister was present at the postmortem the CBI has now taken note of this uh it is influencing the postmortem. It makes any claims based on the first postmortem absolutely null and void. So I want to start with you Yukta.

[00:11:29]Are you feeling more hopeful? This this family, the friends have gone through so much hell. How are you feeling a little more hopeful when you see Giribala in court today? Or are you really concerned that there was so much delay in this happening that she could have, you know, she's clearly got a devious mind? She could have done anything with the evidence by now.

[00:11:51]>> Um, we are definitely a little bit relieved that this case has gone to the CBI now.

[00:11:57]Uh but I don't think uh I don't know actually because she had so much time and you're absolutely right. We don't know the damage the the kind of damage that she must have done by now and it's just so sad. I mean if she is so influential if she's so educated what took her so much time the police station is 5 minutes away from her house and she out of all people should know the law and what is to be done in a situation like this. Why were those steps not followed? So if she can do that, if she has such quick thinking in a situation like this, she had so much time to tamper with so many things.

[00:12:34]>> So that is something that is concerning.

[00:12:36]Definitely.

[00:12:38]>> Absolutely. And I it is extremely concerning to me that if she had the presence of mind to be retrieving CCTV footage from a beauty parlor hours after her daughter-in-law has died in her own house, uh she certainly has the devious uh bent of mind to be tampering with evidence. But I want to talk um also a little bit about uh Twisha today. Uh these claims being made about suicide.

[00:13:02]We have reported extensively also on the timeline. It is now established that uh 5 minutes after 10, Tisha spoke to her parents for the last time. Samad Singh could be heard yelling in the background and she hung up abruptly. At 10:20, Samad Singh claims that Tisha took her own life. But there are seven unexplained injuries, including an injury on her head, four on her left arm, and one on her ring finger. Clearly pointing to an assault and maybe her trying to defend herself. U before that, I've asked some of you this before, but I'm going to ask this painful question again. And I'll start uh with you. Uh Monica, you none of you buy the suicide theory, do you? Malikica >> absolutely not ma'am absolutely not it's I think unadulterated nonsense that they are saying from day one that it was a suicide and uh like how Samira said that she was a huge emotional support was a huge uh emotional support when she was getting a div divorce for me also uh she was a huge emotional support ma'am in 2000 I would tell see I can only state personal facts because I'm not into technicalities and legal alities and I knew Tusha from 14 years and she she was more than a friend to me. She was like an elder sister and she has I in 2024 I lost my grandfather and she knew that how close I was to him. He I was brought up by my grandfather. So when he left I didn't know what to do with that void and she being a sunshine person she used to call me literally every day in 2024.

[00:14:45]literally every day to check on me to see if how well I am coping up with that loss and ma'am imagine such and she used to make me laugh she used to make me understand that things do happen it's okay that's life he was 91 now he's in peace all these positive things she used to tell me that it it actually helped me cope up with that loss so ma'am just imagine a girl who can comfort you from a distance over a phone call how caring and loving that person would Monica, you you say that she was there for you in a very difficult phase of your life. Her last few months were clearly not anything she thought her marriage would be like. Did she confide in you? And if so, what did you advise her? Any of you? I'll start with Monica and then come to the others.

[00:15:35]>> Unfortunately, no ma'am. I still regret that and so many days have passed but I'm unable to get over that fact that I've lost such a close friend such a dear friend who used to jokingly tell me that Monica Minnie she used to call me Minnie she like Minnie will hang out at the age of 90 also when we'll not have teeth and the only thing we'll be able to have was ice cream we used to love having ice cream and we used to talk for hours and hours we used to finish like one tub of ice cream me and her and it was I I feel so bad that in her last days I couldn't I was busy with my work I couldn't attend her wedding she had so many plans she used to tell me talk about so many things that last I spoke to her was before her mahi when she was getting her nails done in the parlor and she was very excited she were like I need to tell you so many things just like I planned that green that you can see uh in her mahendi pictures that she had envisioned from I think uh 2022 23 when my sister was getting married and she was supposed to come again she couldn't attend that wedding but uh she was supposed to come that time she had this in her mind that I will get a green langga I love that color and when I saw the pictures of her mahindi I were like oh finally you got that langa and unfortunately I was not in touch with her and she never never said all any of it. She always spoke about her mother-in-law and her husband so positively. She knew from the day one that yes she's dominating. Girib Bala Singh is a dominating lady and she used to tell me things. So I used to tell are you okay? Are you think you will be able to adjust? She like Monica I really respect her because she had to be dominating. She had to be like that. She used to defend her saying that she uh after um after her husband passed away, she brought up two boys and just imagine how difficult her would life would be.

[00:17:38]She was so compassionate towards that lady also. She was she she used to look everything through through positivity and she always told me it's okay. She is a strong lady. She's a strong woman. I admire her. I it's okay if she's dominating. I can I think I'll manage. I think I'll manage. That's the confidence she held and we all thought that she yes she can manage anything and everything in life because she was a very strong personality.

[00:18:05]>> But you know um and I'll ask Samira I'll ask you this because you've actually been through a separation. One of the tough things I think it might even be tough for men but I think it's especially tough for women is you don't want even sometimes to tell your closest friends or your siblings or your you know anyone about the about the fact that you're struggling in your marriage right you want your imagined version of the marriage to last maybe a bit longer maybe you're thinking I can make it work maybe your parents are telling you compromise Do you you know were you as surprised to discover the horror of it or did you have some sense of it? And do you understand that women sometimes find it very difficult to acknowledge what they're going through in their personal spaces even with people they're very close to?

[00:18:58]>> Ma'am, of course it does happen. Luckily for me, my family was very supportive uh when I decided to take that decision and they were very supportive and they said that you know this is something that you should not tolerate and I had that support and backing from my parents and my brother >> uh which is why I could take that step and of course when I when I spoke to people about it and I told my close friends about it they all said that you've done the right thing you've made the right choice because you you have two choices in life either you continue this way because it will happen again >> or you decide a different life for yourself and and the choice was very clear for me at that point of time that this is what I need to do for me.

[00:19:40]>> Uh it's okay to be alone. I I can be independent. I can take care of myself.

[00:19:44]But I I did not want to be in that relationship anymore.

[00:19:49]So yes uh it is a difficult choice to make because you know you're newly married and uh you go into that home with a lot of aspirations and you feel that this is the home that I want to build because this is my home I'm going to set it up and you know everything's going to go as per my likings because you know when when we were very small I I still remember when we small we dress up as brides and you know we practice that whole thing of getting married and and Twisha was just like that you know Tisha was just like that because I remember she was so excited about what color is she going to wear, what lehenga is she going to wear in what function and you know all of that. She was just like that always talking about it and just you know what kind of hair should I do, what kind of jewelry should I wear.

[00:20:36]So >> she was just like that ma'am and she was very excited.

[00:20:39]>> You know did you have a sense of what she was going through all these months because it's now you did >> I did. She told me before the wedding that uh she had visited Bhopal and uh she in fact once told me that Samarth had a massive argument with his mother and where where he said that I will not live with her and we will take a separate place after we get married and we'll move into a new place. So she said that you know I feel that he's going to take a separate place and the mother's involvement will not be as much as it is in his life at this point of time because she told me that um Tisha has been a model and an actor. So the mother-in-law had told her that you need to if if you want to marry my son you have to remove all these pictures from social media and everywhere else. She removed all her pictures from Instagram.

[00:21:29]Uh you know whatever was there of her modeling days, she removed those pictures. She also deactivated her account for some time.

[00:21:36]>> Uh she asked a lot of people what to do about those pictures which are posted through other sources. But there were so many of them that we were not able to you know sort of reach out to each and every source and get those pictures deleted. So I told her, I said, "Wisha, I think you're rushing into this because I don't think that this woman is uh you know, I I if she's saying these things to you now, she will make your life miserable later." But again, like how Monica said, she you know what she told me? She said, you know, I'm going into a family. I should listen to her. You know, if she's telling me to delete those pictures, I should delete those pictures.

[00:22:17]>> But it's such a red flag. But it's such a red flag, right? I know. I know it's easy to say. I know there are all kinds of pressures on women in homes, but it's such a red flag, right? It's coercive control. It's just if Twisha's path was as a model and an actor even, why should she erase that? Why should she not have the freedom to pursue that? It's such a red flag. And you were right in telling her that, but this is what women go through. They struggle to fit in.

[00:22:49]Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you.

[00:22:50]Go ahead, Sabira and then I'll come to Kuml.

[00:22:53]>> So ma'am, it was just that that you know she said that the mother-in-law had told her that this is unacceptable in our family. If you have these pictures posted online, you know it's it's something that we are not going to be very happy about. So she was very upset before the wedding. She was very stressed before the wedding that what do I do about these pictures? I can't reach out to all these sources because there's so many of them and you know I don't have the >> and and and you're saying Gibbala wanted her to even remove pictures that may be just on the internet >> all pictures from the internet which are not posted by her >> all pictures on the internet which is no matter who has posted them whether it's in a video that she's done or whether it's a shoot that she's done >> she wanted her to remove everything every source of you know her modeling or acting days she wanted to remove that online.

[00:23:45]>> My god, it just captures KL, doesn't it?

[00:23:48]What Tisha went through. And actually, it just it's so sad, right? Because all of you describe this really vivacious woman. Harshett was telling me that her very name means the break of dawn, the first light. Her name captured her personality. And then you think of like the control, the the the sort of she must have felt absolutely suffocated uh in that house. Kuml, we haven't had a chance to to talk before. I I'm just wondering how how you're feeling right now. This is too traumatic to process.

[00:24:18]It's probably going to take months, years, maybe longer. Um and right now, you know, as Harit, Major Harit said, there's no time to even grieve.

[00:24:26]Everyone's focused just on trying to get justice. So, your thoughts, Kuml?

[00:24:31]>> Yeah, I mean, it's it's very difficult to even process because I think initial 3 days I was not in a zone. It felt to me like, you know, it's probably a nightmare and I'm just going to wake up next day and somebody will be like, you know, this is not true and uh this is not something that happened to my friend. But then, yeah, I mean, as Hashid said, like we haven't had the chance to grieve together because, you know, since the day all of this happened, uh I mean, everybody was trying to amplify it on social media so at least people get to know what exactly happened to her. And since day one, like the minute I spoke to her mom on the same uh evening, I think uh auntie messaged me around uh 13th May in the evening. And uh I mean I I just still remember the message. It said uh KL tuk tokiss no more because uh tuk tuk was her nickname in the house. And the 10 minutes post that I think I was just zoned out. I don't remember what I spoke to her. uh the I think one of the cousins she was with them in the car they were traveling to Bopal they were still on their way so I mean that that's the only thing that I remember and uh next few days I wasn't even ready to talk about it but then you know you sit with yourself and then you go through all the conversations that you've had in the past because uh she contacted me every month after the wedding because I mean we've had our like one-hour long calls >> the first month of the wedding because I travel a lot. So she would come to me for travel suggestions and I remember like even summer Twisha and me we were on a call and we were discussing where do they want to go for their honeymoon and I was trying to plan it out but even around that time she was very happy like she was extremely happy but things kind of changed because after Feb like uh Feb end maybe she started calling me but then it wasn't for like you know the usual conversation >> she would just have like these very quick abrupt conversations. She'd be like please I'm getting very bored. So initially it was like I'm getting bored. I need to find a job. And then later after 2 3 weeks uh I gave her some connects. I was like apply you know you will find something and then later around April as well when she called me it was again like a very short like a 20 30 secondond call that you know Hua can you follow up with that company? I am really desperate. I really need a job. And I was like I mean for me as a friend I was like why are you running behind a job? Just chill for some time because shadiki go hardly some 3 four months have happened and then hers got married around Feb. So she was busy with that. So I was like you haven't had time to even settle down properly. You will get a job don't worry about it. But then uh my last conversation with her sort of changed my perspective as well because uh she was supposed to come to Bangalore and I'm based in Bangalore now.

[00:27:42]>> So she called me around 10th or 11th April. I was in a shoot. I couldn't pick up her call but she's called me twice and this was like Tisha if I don't pick up then she'll call me like some 10 times because she wants to talk and she wants to like you know talk to you right then and there.

[00:27:57]>> So I messaged her like I I'm in a shoot.

[00:27:59]I'll call you back in some time. She called me again and then I was like this is sort of urgent but then she's like she was very excited. She was like you know what I am coming to Bangalore and uh let's catch up let's meet. So she had everything planned and uh I think it was summer's college reunion or some kind of thing that they were planning to attend and as soon as uh she spoke to me and my first question was like when is your return ticket so you know I can plan my day how many days are you here the generic questions and I think Sam was in the room around that time and uh she spoke to him and she was like when is return ticket and he said something and she got really upset and she was like and that kind of changed like that tone sort of changed and she just told me uh sorry common I'll call you back and she disconnected the call then I messaged her post that she spoke to me and she was like we're still figuring out but I'll probably try and come around 24th 25th but she was very excited about it >> so now that I hear things and I'm like she would have told me if the plans were not exactly happening because I know that she will not miss the chance to meet me especially when she's coming to the city. So that sort of changed my perspective and I was like that you know that abrupt conversation again like I'll call you back and not talking to me properly not sharing things because I mean all of us in the room would agree that she loved to talk like if she would call you the call would not be less than 45 minutes to 1 hour and this was like with everybody I'm sure because we've met all of us met at her wedding last and she would talk to everybody. body like she's never treated that this friend is more important the other one but she's always treated all of us like her best friends so I mean it it's just stupid what things are out there and people are talking about it >> yeah I think Mana wants to come in Mana go ahead >> ma'am forget friends she used to talk to my parents she used to come home and she used to talk to my mom so much constantly she used to keep talking my mom used to That's what she used to say. She used to come home, she like auntie, she was so homely. She used to talk to everybody. She used to love talking >> and the the statement Sat is going on saying that she was from a glamour world and both of them in fact not just both of them uh they are going and stating that uh she uh had adjustment problems because she belonged to a glamour world.

[00:30:46]Last time also ma'am I told you that she left glamour world in 2021 and she wanted to carry on a simple uh life where she goes on >> Maneka I I just want to say there's nothing wrong if somebody chooses to be from the glamour world it is not for >> Girala I am also an actor I am also an actor that is what I'm saying it's horrible that she's saying she was she was such a homely girl I am also an actor I moved to Bombay in 2018 she told me where to go for auditions for introductions and she used to be really uh helpful. She was a she used to guide me like an elder sister. I am not saying go from a glamour world. They are portraying it as if they she's from she was from a glamour world and she had adjustment problems because she wanted a glamorous life. That's unad adultated nonsense. Again it's bullshit. That is not positive. And everybody out here will will agree that she was such a homely girl. She was such a simple girl.

[00:31:42]She was very strong on her family values. She used to talk to my mom, my dad, everybody like for hours. She used to love social gatherings. She used to love family setups. Our our yearly meetups was not somewhere ma'am some uh party places or somewhere out in lounge or somewhere. It was at home. She used to visit me at my place in Mumbai. I used to go there. We used to five five days together. It was >> I understand what you're saying. All I'm saying is that even if she was not homely, even if she was from the glamour world, even if she had a personal history, uh that are that is her all of these are her freedoms as an individual.

[00:32:26]this morality lens that has been thrust on her with half lies half you know by Girib Bala Singh and Sam she doesn't have to fit their labels of being a good girl to have her freedom to live a life on her own terms that's that's the only limited point I'm making but I want to come to this point all four of you were just you you know in unison you shook your heads like this when I said it could not have been suicide right now I have journalistic reasons for that I didn't know Twisha but I have things that raised my suspicions the way Girala Singh has tried to cover up evidence the way she's calling for CCTV footage praisha speaks to her mother and 10:20 Sam claims that she's taken her life the injuries make me suspicious Giribala Singh trying to get beauty pala CCTV footage makes me suspicious Giribala's lies about drug use make me suspicious Giribala's abject misogyny the words she has used for her daughter-in-law private audio tapes and even in her public statements. It just makes me ill. I agree with Rashi. It's actually just sickening. But those are my reasons. But the four of you come from a personal space. You come from somebody your people who knew her. Yukta, I'll start with you to this case is still being treated as a suicide case even though Giribala is in court in custody and everybody that I've spoken to in Pisha's family or friends believes it could not have been suicide. So I want to understand from all four of you why you feel that so strongly and I'll start with you Yukta >> because knowing Tisha anybody who's ever known her right anybody who's met her once would let you know that she is not somebody who could do this to herself she's very vocal as a person she's always stood up for herself she does not believe in become a victim or she doesn't have the sort of a mentality she would any person that she would meet she would give them the same advice. She would teach them to fight. She would always tell me that no problem is bigger than life itself. And that is my stir. How could a person like that do this? I don't I mean a random stranger who doesn't know her, who is following the case is raising questions that why is this still being treated as a suicide? And people who have facts, they're not I don't know what is stopping anybody from uh treating this case as they should. because it is not a suicide case. It definitely isn't. And if everybody pieces facts together, it is going to be very evident. And the kind of person that she is, I think I'm not the only person just because I'm a sister. Anybody that you talk to, everybody has said the same thing.

[00:35:10]And there would be no reason to lie.

[00:35:12]>> I agree with you. I I I believe that this is uh there is clear evidence to suggest that this is uh this is there was assault uh preceding her death.

[00:35:23]uh it is it is so obvious from the nature of injuries and from the attempted cover up. But Kuml uh let's come to you. You said that you felt something change in April. The conversations from a very talkative person became somewhat abrupt, a little bit tense. Uh I take it that you know I think I think Samira had some sense of this um this attempt at controlling right um did any of you have any sense of what was going on? Malika also had some sense. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:35:55]>> No, I mean we knew that she was uh dominating from the start because uh when she spoke about her in general, but I was relieved because the only conversation with her I remember is that uh after the wedding Sam was planning to move to Delhi. So she was like I'm not going to be living in the same house. So we'll probably shift to Delhi or uh if he gets like another good opportunity we'll be somewhere else but we won't be staying with his family. So I was sort of okay with it. The only time that I saw her really upset was around her birthday because uh I think Giri Bala Singh just told them that you know you guys cannot meet each other before the wedding and this was after the roa was done already. So for me I mean it was like a kind of uh you know that cultural shock and I was like they are engaged and uh so she was like family those kind of talks. So she was upset she's like oh it's my first birthday uh after you know we've been engaged and I really wanted to meet him and spend my birthday with him. So that was kind of uh one of the instances but when I met her directly at the wedding I mean you can just look at her and you can tell what kind of person she is because she was not smiling at a lot of people and I just remember like one small conversation I had with Tisha's mom and auntie sort of had tears in her eyes during the wedding and I was like what happened and then she was like oh uh to late some function was delayed by some time And uh she was like delay and for me it was very casual. I was like these are Indian weddings. I mean it's supposed to be like that like things are delayed but I mean by looking at the way auntie was crying I sort of thought that you know it could be something that hurt her because if the SAS comes and says something then it has to be on that level but then I was like auntie it's okay chill no problem we'll figure it out but that started from day one and uh I remember like even uh during her vitai like Samira Yupta, all of us were there and uh I mean there's that pug fasam that happens. So we all thought that she's going to sit in the car, take her around and then come back. But she didn't let them come back. We were just standing there and we were waiting for her and uh we actually thought she'll come and then we get to know that no she's not coming back. They've just directly gone to their place wherever uh Samad's family was staying and we were just waiting there. Then we sort of all of us left.

[00:38:51]So even that s ceremony didn't happen at that time. So I mean I'm I'm not sure what exactly went wrong there but uh I mean there were things that were pretty evident during the wedding as well that >> I mean's mom was crying and saying that in itself is such a frankly icky feeling.

[00:39:13]>> Yeah. and over over some things that are very sort of you know acceptable that Indian weddings things will get delayed.

[00:39:21]It's it's normal.

[00:39:24]>> Absolutely. Absolutely. Manika you why is it not Sorry I did ask you that Kuml why are you so convinced it's not suicide?

[00:39:33]>> Uh I mean see I have known her since Bombay. This was around like the initial struggling days. She's that kind of a person who loved herself. Like literally loved herself. The first thing when we moved in the first thing that she bought was a full-length mirror. Like she had no other priorities. She's like fulllength mirror. So she was somebody who will take care of her body, who will take care of her entire appearance. And I just can't believe that somebody who loved herself so much will go to that extent because she would not even like a scar on her body like she would even treat it and be that kind of a person who is like you know very confident in what she wears. She was very confident in how she was. So I don't think so.

[00:40:25]Like even if I've seen her getting rejected from like amazing auditions like you know she's going to get that part but a day before she was rejected.

[00:40:35]So I've gone like I've seen her going through that phase as well but that never broke her like nothing broke her and this I'm seeing from like a decade of knowing her. I've never seen her like back down. She was always that person who would come back up and be like this is normal. I will this this shall pass sort of a person. So I don't think so she would do this to herself and I have never believed in this since day one. I mean that's not her mana if you want to add to that.

[00:41:08]>> Uh same ma'am same she used to love herself even I know from her modeling days. So basically how I got connected to Tusha was she is my sister's college friend. So she used to come home and both of them were into modeling and they used to model together. She used to always uplift others also. So she used to tell my sister guide her what should you wear this looks make this makes you look better you should wear this wear this kind of things and she used to guide me also as I told you I'm an also an actor and when I came to Bombay she guided me through and I saw her uh she always told me listen Manika everybody says it's very difficult but it's all you it's persistence you have to be very patient she used to guide me like that you have to be very patient and she used to tell me love yourself more. Talk to yourself, talk about yourself. This is like u this profession requires you to love yourself a lot. So she was somebody who loved herself like KL said that absolutely she used to follow a routine. She used to follow a regime to make her look um she used to work out. She used to take care of herself, her hair, everything. But you know what mana loving loving yourself has to be for all of us beyond our bodies. We have to love our life and when we don't love our life we have to feel empowered enough to make a different set of choices.

[00:42:38]Right? I know it's easier said than done but I just want to make this point that no judgment. I know what women go through. I I I know the cultural conditioning. I know all of that. But it just my heart goes out. I just keep thinking, you know, I just I just keep thinking, my god, she could have been here with us today, maybe having this conversation, maybe having walked out of that awful Giriba Singh's home, telling us here right now with all of you what it was all about. So that day ma'am it's very heartbreaking and I don't know how the family is keeping us so themselves so strong because she was a deeply loved daughter and a deeply loved sister >> and just it I can't imagine and honestly I don't even want to imagine what they must be going through because it my heart aches if I do so and she yes she loved her life and she wanted to travel she wanted to live she wanted to read she used to read so much and she wanted to just medit she she used to do vipasa she loved rishies and today when I got to know that they are going to rishies >> I know those images can I want to play those images from rishies because they're really heartbreaking um sorry go ahead as we bring them up >> she had gone to vipasa in rishi she used to meditate she used to practice yoga she wanted so much to do with her life and all her decisions ma'am nobody had any questions about it from getting into modeling from doing MBA from getting into acting from Bollywood to going to Telu industry everything was her own decision and everybody knew that she is capable of taking her own decisions and nobody ever questioned Tisha because we all knew that she's strong and she's capable of doing so many things >> I want to give you Samira the last word as we end Samira um how would you want everybody to remember Tisha >> ma'am you know like I I had said this when we had last spoken as well that uh she's a beautiful soul and we've we've we've really lost a beautiful soul from this world you know every time everybody asks me you knew Tisha you know you you're friends with her you were friends with her and every time I tell them the same thing that if you would have met her once you would have loved her. You would have fallen in love with her. She was that kind of a person. Anybody who met her would immediately, you know, fall in love with her because that is how vibrant she was.

[00:45:18]And >> it's just Yeah. Go ahead.

[00:45:23]>> I still I don't know how to process this at all. I don't know how to process this at all. It it believes like how you know Kl said that it seems like a nightmare which is going to get over but every day when I wake up and I see something new it just reminds me of the fact that we've actually lost her.

[00:45:45]>> Yeah. I'm so sorry for your loss all all of you and I thank you again for talking to us at this time. Um Major Harshid said the same thing. He said our time for grieving has not even come. We we don't even have uh that time and I'm just going to play this out and then Yuktai if you want to add a last comment but take a look.

[00:46:09]How did you handle your emotions in this time? Your sister is dead. She's your elder sister. She used to call you beta.

[00:46:18]You don't have a moment to mourn her passing because you are immediately thrown into this fight for justice and nobody is listening to you. The FIR isn't being registered. 60 70 letters you're having to write. You have no space to process your emotion. I don't know h how did you keep going and what was the toughest thing in these last 14 days? Major >> ma'am the time of grief has not yet come.

[00:46:51]I am not griefstricken as of now. I just want you know sometimes to actually process this completely. I am not yet even at uh there have been times when I've wake up in the morning and just feel it's a nightmare that I was going through and then I happen to just open YouTube and just see everything and it just strikes me okay no it is not I'm still living this nightmare and I have to go through this again so it has happened not once quite a lot of times whenever I wake up and feel like it's just a bad dream possibly it is not happening the only thing that has been with me the biggest challenge firstly was for us to be heard, ma'am, from the very beginning. And you and so many other people have just come up to help us out with this, for us to at least be heard.

[00:47:40]That was the biggest challenge because we were trying to speak. We knew what was happening. We knew what was going wrong, but nobody was listening. I think that was the biggest challenge then. And that is where you guys actually came in and helped us out a lot.

[00:47:54]>> It is our duty. We not >> Yeah. Go ahead. The biggest support that I've had is again I would say ma'am my brothers my family and all the people who are still working taking the time out out of their own busy schedule to just help with the case giving their inputs watching interviews giving us inputs okay she has said this she has said that for us to note it is not a single uhhanded effort it is the effort of all those who are connected to Trisha and yeah that is my support system ma'am >> Rashi it must have been tough for you to see you know Harshett go through this for you to go through it yourself for a family to be faced with this you know what would you want people to understand it must have felt quite lonely at times um I mean again there's nothing to be understood but I mean I do not have words about it the only fact is again as hasha has mentioned we're very thankful to everyone who's supported the family supported tuisha in the cause. I mean we just need again we need everyone to keep keep continuing with their support till the end because as Hashid said the basic thing that is to be heard for the procedure to be started that was the biggest challenge uh to be heard.

[00:49:13]>> Yeah the biggest challenge to be heard.

[00:49:15]Imagine that you don't even have space uh to grieve and you're just fighting to be heard. Yuktal any thoughts there?

[00:49:22]Um, I think as tragic as this loss is, the only thing now that is going to help her and her soul get peace is going to be justice. Because since day one, ma'am, we have been kept in the dark.

[00:49:37]The family needs to know, right? We need to have answers to be able to even grieve. What do we grieve?

[00:49:45]There is no time because you're going from one police station to the other, one courthouse to the other. You're just being dragged around. whilst our loved one is there in the mortury like that it is I I think it's extremely traumatic I don't I don't have words but now I think the only thing that we all can do and I think we owe it to my sister to bring her justice that is the only thing now that is to be done yeah >> absolutely um I just want to say thank you to all four of you I know this couldn't have been easy to speak to remember uh again to not have the space to moan to have the shadow of mystery uh suspicion hang over all of this to worry whether evidence has been erased or manipulated in the initial few days must have been so difficult to stand I've seen family members stand with folded hands trying anger anguish everything to just get that fir booked it's been awful and all I can hope and I agree with you that the only thing that can now maybe bring God bless her wherever she is some sense of I can't say closure but but peace is that that those who did this Giriba Singh and her son and everybody else who helped shelter Samar Singh who helped manipulate evidence who helped cover up police officers who were complicit doctors who were complicit there's a whole ecosystem here that needs to be brought uh to justice thank you uh to KL to Yukta to Samira to Manika I want to leave you all uh with this little clip um I asked Harshett how would you like to remember your sister and I think he described it so beautifully. So this evening um we remember Tisha through the eyes of her friends and family and we leave you with this little snippet. Thank you and see you soon.

[00:51:34]If you wanted people to remember Twisha, people now feel everybody feels they know Twisha even people who've never met her. What is that one line that you would you say that how you know one thing that everybody should remember her as? Ma'am, I think it's in her name itself. Uh, the name it means uh I'll say it in Hindi.

[00:52:02]She's the break of dawn.

[00:52:05]So, she's that light. She's that light who just overcomes the darkness. She's that first ray of light. And the way I would want people to remember her by is by making such a you know a statement because it's a it's not just every day that whatever things are happening are happen.

[00:52:29]So it is going to be a statement judgment and we are hoping for that and we are hoping that everybody remembers Tusha by the fact that you know she brought out this change.

[00:52:43]I think that's beautiful that the name itself captures how you'd like us to remember her. The first ray of light, the first break of dawn. May May her memory may her memory be honored by those who did this to her getting exemplary punishment. I personally would like to see Giribal Singh in prison along with her son for a long long time.

[00:53:07]I hope this doesn't become a tarik tarik case that stretches on for years. I don't think that's fair to the family. I think we must see exemplary punishment in a fasttracked case and I thank you and salute you once again for your courage. Thank you Major Hasha. Thank you Hashi. Take care. If you wanted people to it's great to see you here. Thank you for watching our work. If you haven't subscribed yet, don't forget to click the bell icon and subscribe to Mojo Story and support independent robust journalists.