Forensic head at AIIMS Delhi says hospital prepared to conduct 2nd autopsy on Twisha Sharma

Either way, we are prepared to do the needful in the interest of justice, Gupta told PTI.The body of 33-year-old Twisha is currently kept at the mortuary of AIIMS Bhopal, he said.The high-profile dowry death case saw fast-paced developments on Friday with police taking custody of Twishas husband, who was on the run for more than a week, and the Madhya Pradesh High Court ordering a second autopsy by a specialised AIIMS Delhi team as requested by her family.Twisha, a model-turned-actor from Noida, was found hanging at her marital home in Bhopals Katara Hills area on May 12.

The head of the forensic medicine department at AIIMS Delhi on Friday said the hospital is prepared to conduct a second autopsy on actor-model Twisha Sharma following a Madhya Pradesh High Court order in the alleged dowry death case.

Head of the department, Dr Sudhir Gupta, said that he learnt about the court direction through media reports and is awaiting an official order.

''Once we receive the order, either a team of doctors will be sent to Bhopal or, if arrangements are made to shift the body to AIIMS Delhi, the post-mortem will be conducted here. Either way, we are prepared to do the needful in the interest of justice,'' Gupta told PTI.

The body of 33-year-old Twisha is currently kept at the mortuary of AIIMS Bhopal, he said.

The high-profile dowry death case saw fast-paced developments on Friday with police taking custody of Twisha's husband, who was on the run for more than a week, and the Madhya Pradesh High Court ordering a second autopsy by a specialised AIIMS Delhi team as requested by her family.

Twisha, a model-turned-actor from Noida, was found hanging at her marital home in Bhopal's Katara Hills area on May 12. While her in-laws allege that she suffered from drug addiction, her family maintains that she was harassed for dowry, which led to her death.

Hearing a petition filed by Twisha's family, a single-judge bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court on Friday asked the state government to make immediate arrangements for flying a specialised team of doctors from AIIMS Delhi to Bhopal for the second autopsy, Akur Pandey, the lawyer representing Twisha's family, told PTI.

The high court also issued a notice to Twisha's mother-in-law, Giribala Singh, a former judge named in the case as an accused, along with the deceased's husband Samarth, on pleas filed by Twisha's father and the state government seeking cancellation of her anticipatory bail.