Hyderabad: Four incidents in eight days that cost five women and four children, including a three-months-old infant, left city residents startled. Not to end at that, the gruesome murders had two unborns as victims. Experts saw this as an effect of delusion of infidelity developing in men due to mental instability or chronic alcoholism or a personality issue. Suspecting the loyalty of their partner would build up and the reaction could be extreme, said psychiatrists. But, activists say each case had to be viewed separately.
In the Chandanagar murder last Monday, two women and a four year-old-child were killed. The body of an unidentified woman in her eighth month of pregnancy was found dumped at Kondapur on Tuesday. On Thursday, the severed head of an infant was found at Uppal and in the latest on Monday, a woman and her kids were murdered at Meerpet.
Senior psychiatrist Dr Preethi Swaroop says many factors were involved in taking a person to this extent of cruelty. It could also be called an “Antisocial personality disorder’ (ASPD). Persons suffering with these factors strongly believed their partners were not loyal to them and as an impulsive reaction could go to any extreme like harming and killing even their own children.
