Twisha Sharma Case: Giribala arrested | Faye D'Souza

Added: 2026-05-31

[00:00:00]So the CBI has arrested Girib Bala Singh the accused in uh the case of Tisha Sharma. Giribala Singh is a former judge and Tisha Sharma's mother-in-law. Madhya Pradesh High Court has quashed her anticipatory bail and the CBI questioned her in her home and before taking her into custody. Remember the son Samar Singh is already in custody. The CBI now apparently plans to uh question them separately and confront them to see if each other's if they're able to match each other's statements with regard to the circumstances that led up to the death of Tisha Sharma on the 12th of May. She will be of course Girala Singh will be produced before a court in the next 24 hours to seek her custody. Just a quick update on this case and um I'll tell you everything that has happened so far and I have a a rather unpopular take on this that I've been thinking about for several days. I've decided to put out today. Now Girbala Singh served as a district court judge in Madhya Pradesh um and later held the pres post of the president of consumer forum. Records mentioned that she served from 2021 to 23. She's the mother of Samarat Singh and Trisha's husband. Following Trisha's death an FIR was registered against both of them accusing them of mental harassment, emotional abuse and dowy related cruelty. Now the arrest comes after the anticipatory bail uh hearing in the high court in Madhya Pradesh.

[00:01:25]Girbala faces charges under section 82 dowy death, cruelty by against a woman by husband or relatives and acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention. effectively she's been booked under the dowi prohibition act. Now a quick refresher on this case in case you have forgotten it seems unlikely that you would have been. Tisha Sharma 33 former actor model was found hanging in her matrimonial home on the 12th of May.

[00:01:52]Her family has accused her in-laws of diary harassment and abetment to suicide. Her in-laws say that she suffered from um drug addiction. The police have registered an FIR against Samra Singh and Girib Bala Singh. In their statements, the family members said that she was being tormented by her in-laws who were not satisfied with the dowy paid at the time of their wedding in December last year. The family accuses the in-laws of mental torture, domestic violence, and pushing her to take that extreme step. The Bopal police registered a uh FIR 2 days after Tisha's death. that in that FIR it said that basically the husband brought her to Ames Bopal um after she had hung herself uh after she had hanged herself at 10:20 p.m. The doctors at Ames say that um you know they informed the police at midnight that she had been brought dead.

[00:02:49]The postmortem report and this is where it becomes interesting. The postmortem report said that she was death due to hanging by the neck, but also that she had multiple antimm injuries, which means that she had multiple injuries caused by blunt force on other parts of her body that happened before she died.

[00:03:08]Now, after receiving the postmortm report and recording family members statements, the police registered that FIR. Um, Giribala Singh though went on a spree of giving press conferences and various sort of media interviews and it was really her statements in the press that made this case a lot worse. In a statement given to the police at the time of the FIR, Tisha's family said that Trisha spoke to her mother at 9:41 p.m. And remember, she was apparently brought to Ames Bopal at 10:20. So less than an hour had passed from that phone call. During the phone call, her husband was heard shouting in the background and then the call was end was cut abruptly.

[00:03:53]This is according to the mother's statement in the FIR. After repeated phone calls, the mother was answering.

[00:03:58]Girala Singh picked up the phone and said that she had already died and that is why the family believes that there's something wrong here. uh hearing the case on Monday, the Supreme Court chief justice, the Supreme Court has now taken cognizance have basically said that they will ensure an investigation fair, independent and impartial. Now there are very like I told you many viral interview snippets from Giribala Singh's statements to the press. Uh in one interview she has said that um her daughter-in-law was so cruel that she didn't even water the plants on the balcony. I mean it sounds like a really trivial complaint but beneath this is that question of a woman's value being measured by how chasteed she is, how good she is at cooking and cleaning and keeping house and plant watering and how that is entirely her value. There was there's one phone call that has now been released in the press in which Giribbala Singh is talking to Tisha's brother about how um she feels that because Tisha has had multiple sexual partners before she got married that she her her basically her character is untrustworthy after she got married and apparently she questioned when when Trisha got pregnant she questioned who whose baby that might be altogether and the brother was asking how such a question could be asked of a daughter-in-law. Kirbala Singh has made several claims saying that uh Tisha had mental health issues and drug consumption and she was consuming marijuana while she was pregnant.

[00:05:32]According to Girbala, Tisha's parents stayed away from her for months that they were only interested in controlling her career and making her making money out of the glamour world. Uh and later they disowned her. She has also said that Tisha confessed to consuming large amounts of marijuana while she was pregnant and she was undergoing mental health training uh program and that she you know the mother-in-law was supporting her through that program. She also said that Girala Giribala said that her daughter-in-law took the first course of the MTP which is medical termination. So it it it's a form of oral medication you take if you want to have a um an abortion. According to her, Tisha took the pill on the 7th of May and completed the course. She said uh she wanted to she didn't want to have the baby and she didn't let us have a fleeting moment of joy. Um the CBI though in its argument before the Madhya Pradesh High Court asking for uh custody of her basically said that u she had left no stone unturned to malign the character of her daughter-in-law.

[00:06:40]The agency also said that there was dowry harassment, forced termination of a pregnancy, attempts to tamper with evidence while claiming that Tisha's in-laws failed to explain the injuries on her body. Remember, apparently she had injuries on her wrist and her elbow, and there was no explanation offered by her in-laws as to how she got those injuries before uh she uh she died. And apparently the postmortem and the medical query report have established that the injuries could not have happened when they were trying to take her down from where she had hanged herself. The CBI alleged that uh Trisha was consequently she was forced to undergo an abortion after her in-laws and her husband doubted her character and questioned who the uh father of that child was. The CVI also alleges that Girbala Singh tampered with evidence uh circulating a selective video clip on social media and she leaked the selective portion of that video in an attempt to influence the case in her favor. the other and and these are these are reported by the media although we've not been able to establish the actual messages but the media the times of India the Maharashtra times have reported these messages between Tisha and her parents where she has said and I quote my life has become hell she basically said these people are really cruel Samraat doesn't even speak to me properly please come here and take me away these people will not let me live allegedly this has been covered by by several newspapers.

[00:08:14]She says she kept saying my life has become hell. Everyone here is very cruel. In another report, she says my I am suffocating. Please take me from here. According to the reports, every time she told her parents that she was unhappy, the parents told her to adjust temporarily in an and they would attempt to inter to to intervene with the in-laws. Um that they told her basically in the beginning of every marriage it tends to be difficult. try and adjust and that I believe is the focal point of this entire conversation. I just want to point out just quick data. According to data released by the NCRP, there were 5,737 dowy deaths in India in 2024.

[00:09:01]It was 2 years ago in one year. Um, and I want you to just do an exercise. Um, because the human mind tends to block out this trauma and I'm going to work past that. Um, if you were to imagine when someone dies and that body is brought to the family, what the house looks like when there's a dead body brought to the family. Now imagine three people dead.

[00:09:29]Now imagine six people dead.

[00:09:34]Now imagine 5,737 bodies of women who recently got married.

[00:09:48]Registered dowi deaths.

[00:09:51]I'm not including the deaths from domestic violence. I'm not including the debts that actually manage to get away with calling them accidents because a lot of times they're just dowsed with fuel and kerosene and burnt in the kitchen and it's called a kitchen accident. A lot of times they're shoved from the terrace which we saw happen in NOA right alongside this case and sometimes it's called suicide and in many many cases the in-laws get away with with calling it accidents and suicide so their son is free to marry again.

[00:10:24]Uttar Pradesh which accounted for more than a third of the national total.

[00:10:28]There were 2,38 cases reported in one year. Bihar was next with over a,000 cases. These two states together make up more than half of India's total diary deaths. Madhya Pradesh 450, Rajasthan 386, West Bengal 337 and so on. Among the among the cities Delhi was the worst with 109 cases.

[00:10:53]Now here is my unpopular opinion and I want to circle back to the fact that this particular case and the reason why there's so much media attention is because urban India feels that this is one of us and she is one of us and we tend to unfortunately turn our face and our attention away from the rural deaths that happen on a daily basis where women are regularly murdered by the people they trust most, their partners, their husbands, their their family members.

[00:11:26]If Tisha's parents had actually listened to her when she said, "Please take me away from here. They're very cruel to me. They won't let me live."

[00:11:36]She would be alive today. As would many of these, maybe not all, but many of these 5,000 women who are killed on an annual basis. Why is it that parents who are now distraught in front of the country that their daughter is dead did not rush immediately to bring their daughter home?

[00:11:54]Because the idea of a failed marriage, the idea of a divorce is worse than death.

[00:12:02]You would rather allow for your daughter to be tortured, beaten, killed, than work with the idea of her in a failed marriage or a divorce.

[00:12:18]Is Is that the world we live in? I don't have to answer the question. You know that that's the world we live in.

[00:12:26]Why isn't Why aren't we more comfortable with the idea of divorce? Why can't we normalize divorce? And this is my unpopular opinion that I'm putting on the thumbnail. And I'm going to bait a lot of of the old school patriarchs who will come in and say that I'm trying to ruin society.

[00:12:44]But I personally believe we should normalize divorce for various reasons.

[00:12:48]If two people are unhappy together and if they can find happiness elsewhere or if they can just find peace away from each other, shouldn't that be the better option?

[00:12:59]And more importantly, in cases like this where someone's life is on the line, where she knew she was in danger, where she was calling her parents and allegedly regularly saying, "Please take me from here. I can't live like this anymore. I'm being tortured. I'm deeply unhappy."

[00:13:18]If we lived in a society that normalized divorce more, her parents would have picked her up the next day.

[00:13:26]And if according to Girbala Singh if they were only interested in her career she would perfectly fine to restart her career. So she went back to her parents' home.

[00:13:35]But to offer women young women as human sacrifice at the altar of this this idea of patriarchy that you have to be chased.

[00:13:48]You have to water the plants. You have to know how to cook. You have to fit into the idea of what a perfect woman is. You have to bring with you the market value of the man you marry and women are called gold diggers.

[00:14:05]And if you don't bring with you that market value, we'll torture you, we'll beat you, we'll kill you.

[00:14:16]There are many things that the CBI investigation is now going to establish as it goes forward. But one thing is for sure that we know for sure that she's dead and she's gone and that life is over. And that life could have been saved one way or the other if her parents had picked her up the next day.