New Delhi, May 25:
The last rites of former actor-model Twisha Sharma, who was allegedly harassed for dowry, were conducted on Sunday evening in Bhopal with her brother, Major Harshit Sharma, lighting the funeral pyre, marking the end of a 12-day ordeal for the family, though their quest for justice continues.
The cremation at Bhadbhada Vishram Ghat followed a gruelling, high-profile legal battle that began on May 12, when the 33-year-old former Miss Pune was found dead at her matrimonial home in Bhopal’s Katara Hills, and the second postmortem was conducted by a team of AIIMS Delhi earlier in the day.
As the flames of the pyre rose, the immense emotional toll of the past two weeks finally broke through, and many family members collapsed, weeping inconsolably after days of putting on a brave face to fight for a second postmortem.
The delayed farewell was made possible only after a specialised medical team from AIIMS Delhi conducted a meticulous, second post-mortem at AIIMS Bhopal for nearly four hours, and the procedure focused mainly on preserving evidence and investigating physical injuries that the family alleges were overlooked in the initial local probe.
Chief of Forensic Medicine at AIIMS, Delhi, Dr Sudhir Gupta, meanwhile, said the compilation of the report will take some time as certain laboratory tests, including histopathology and viscera examination, are required.