Behind Spusal Crimes: I wrongly read apathy, emotional illiteracy, or mental health?
Poor mental health is not always a reason to kill people. Sometimes, it is a myth of ego, emotional contingent or a clean migration.
In short
- Mental illness stigma confuses the understanding of violent crimes
- Crime is a reflection of widespread emotional illiteracy
- In India, preventive mental health care is rare
A chilling murder. A newly married bride. A body was found 2,000 km from the house. The story shouts in the headlines: 29 -year -old King Raghuvanshi was found dead in a gorge, and his 24 -year -old wife, Sonam, is the mastermind behind the alleged murder.
If his role is proved, it raises a disturbing question: what is an increase in intimate partner murders? Is this untreated mental illness? Crush social pressure? Or are we just getting emotionally numb?
Age of emotional illiteracy
It is not just about mental health. It is not known what to do with feelings like anger, betrayal or jealousy. Psychiatrist and relationship specialist Dr. “Many people have been taught to recognize or regulate their feelings,” says Rachna’s Singh says. “We do not have models for conflict solutions or healthy boundaries. This difference appears in our relationships – and sometimes, in violence.”
Indifferentness may stems from mental instability, but the latter is not the only reason for this. Unresolved psychological issues such as personality disorder, past trauma, emotional deformity, or untoward mental illness can lead to distorted thinking, it can suppress sympathy, and even lead extreme behavior.
The mental crisis cannot be the only contributor for this social sick, but it is also true that we have a lack of healthy conflict solutions, distress tolerance and accessible models for relationship boundaries, Dr. Connects lions, questions India’s gross underdeveloped and mental health aid systems.
Mental illness is not an excuse
It is attractive to blame every violent crime on mental illness. But it is both inappropriate and wrong. Director of the Department of Mental Health and Behavior Sciences of Fortis Healthcare, Dr. Sameer Parakh says, “There is a real stigma around mental health. Connecting it with every crime is a great dissatisfaction.”
He indicates something else:
- Lack of sympathy
- No repentance
- Egoism
In most fickle crimes, the person is not mentally ill, they do not just care about how their actions affect others. According to Prikh, it is much more than poor mental welfare, it is complete moral erosion.
Not impulse but intention
In 2025, already six cases have been reported, killing their colleagues – not in a moment of anger, but with an intention that is chilling. In one case, a merchant naval officer was murdered by his partner, chopped, and a cement filled drum was sealed. Motive? an affair. In the second, a woman poisoned her husband’s tea, then strangled her with the help of her lover in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh.
While a wife is killing her husband, in the headlines, in many parts of the society, especially within deep patriarchal settings, the belief of his wife killing his wife is distinguished as a “private” case. It is often presented silence or incorrectly as an accident, and it is the acceptance that crimes are not considered with the urgency they deserve, but with a shrinkage of cultural imperative. There have been some high-profile cases which have forced the issue to the public scene. Suhab Ilasi, who was convicted in several years after the mysterious death of his wife, who initially portrayed a suicide, or in the 1995 Tandoor murder case, where Sushil Sharma killed his wife and burnt his body in a oven.
The tendency to harass fickle crimes is that the accused is confused that their way of starting the murder is. They feel that this is an easy path to erase their past, ignoring the rigorous reality of murder, prison and emotional ruins. Is it appropriate whether to blame emotional illiteracy alone or does it show the complete rupture of the dynamics of the relationship in the society?
Delhi -based sociologist Padma Priyadarshani feels that this is a combination of factors that are triggering such extreme behavior. He said, “‘Thought-Over’ Spusal Murders point to a case of deep social apathy, but we cannot dismiss long-term emotional injuries for such cases, being rooted for such cases,” we say, “she says, which is the root for such cases, which says, which is a 202222222222222222222. Is connected, which is related to love affairs.
While some criminals have shown unresolved psychological issues, others have toxic relations that were spiral over time. “When a person feels powerless or betrayal, but he has no emotional tools to cope, the violence becomes their perverted way to regain control. In this case, the concept of marriage and the centuries -old perception of a family needs to be seen again,” Priyadarshini repeated.
New normal disturbing
It is true that cultural and social pressure only enhance this laxity. The fact is that these planned emotional prisons have survived, which makes such a bifurcation to such crimes. The most truth is that violence is no longer an end. It is just the beginning of what the criminal sees as his new life, but in reality it is the beginning of destruction – for all.
