When women kill: India’s killers inside the minds of brides – love, anger and murder. Bharat News

They are bride, girlfriends, affected, wives – now, they are accused killers.Sonam. Mascan. Shivani. Ravina. Radhika. A wire of young women of the small town of India, recently, navigating their cool corners of life. Today, they are front-pages headlines and viral hashtags, painted in dual strokes-as women and as alleged husband-killers. His names have become a shorthand for both attraction and anger.He has forced an uncomfortable, an uncomfortable and controversial: what does it mean when killing a woman?In these cases, each its own way has been burnt, national media has been burnt and exploded in social platforms – often not with sympathy or nuances, but with a healthy dose of mockri, memes, and misunderstandings. “Sonam Bewafa Hai” Mems made a serious comeback. Instagram Reels made the wives of the wives and the martyrs of the husbands. But there is a deep truth behind the noise, experts say – a story of a society in gender, power, repression and refusal.

Breaking mold – with blood

Let’s start with Sonam Raghuvanshi – now a domestic name. The Indore woman allegedly plotted the murder of her husband Raja in Khutas with her ex -boyfriend and three rented killers during her honeymoon in Meghalaya. The king’s body was discovered in a gorge.Before Maskan Rastogi of Meerut came, who allegedly killed her husband with the help of her lover, hid the body in a cement -filled drum, and tried to disappear.Shivani of Bijnor suffered a heart attack as due to her husband’s death, only to find marks of ligchar for the police. YouTuber Ravina, also, conspired to kill her husband on rejection of her online personality. And Radhika, hardly weeks in marriage, allegedly killed her husband in Sangli.All of them – except for Ravina, who are 32 years old – are women in their 20s.

Doubled, doubled punished

“Women are not expected to do so,” says Professor GS Bajpai, Vice Chancellor of National Law University, Delhi. When they do so, the society does not just see a criminal – it sees a woman who is ‘unsuccessful’ when being a woman, “National Law University, Delhi Vice Chancellor Professor GS Bajpai says.He refers to the “Double Daviance” theory of the British Criminologist Frances Hydenson: a female criminal not only breaks the law, but also breaks gender norms. And it makes society difficult. Bajpai told PTI, “He is twice as distracted and hence it should be punished double.”Unlike men, who are often depicted as impulsive or power-driven, women who kill are branded unnatural, even demonic. They are dissected under a rigid spotlight – their organization, lover, social media habits, even smiles are examined.

Not just Act – but response

According to the National Crime Records Bureau, India registered over 4.45 lakh offenses against women in 2022. But crime by women? There is no standalone category, mainly because they are statistically rare.

Yet rare means irrelevant.

A criminal psychologist, Deepti Puranik, says, “Crimes committed by women have an uneven effect because they bother our cultural expectations.” “We have taught women to press, sacrifice and keep quiet. But the pressure produces cracks. Sometimes, it disappears.”She believes that early marriages, emotional immaturity, agency deficiency, and forced relationships can all face a psychological storm. Worker Yogita Bhayana agrees: “It has become easy for Sonam to plan a murder, to accept that she loves someone else. She says a lot about our society.”

Are these crimes of crime of power – or powerlessness?

Here is the contradiction: Is these women performing a twisted form of empowerment – or is these acts born deeply dishonestly?For Bajpai, the answer is layered. “Men often kill for power. The inspiration of women is often inherent in suffering, manipulation or emotional trauma. When a careful changes the killer, the world does not know how to calculate it. ,He says, “Don’t forget – intimate partner violence leads to a large extent in the opposite direction. Wives killing wives are much more common. But those cases are not in the same headlines in the same way.”The data returns it. Globally and in India, more than half of all women’s homes are committed by current or pre -partners.

Criminal, yes – but still a woman

The portrayal of these accused women has followed an familiar pattern: “Wife with a lover”, “impressed who has gone far away”, “manipulating seduation”. This is not just lazy – it is dangerous.Queens of Crime’s co-author Kulpreet Yadav says that policing, criminal science and media coverage have always been male-centered. “We do not really understand how women with criminal intentions think. And this difference leads to oversimplified stories.”

So should justice be gender-plated?

Bajpai is disagreeed. “A blind, a size-fit-all approach will fail. The context matters. The penis, power dynamics, emotional and social trigger-all must be weighed to reach fair justice.”

Women behind the headlines

Under the leurid description, under trending hashtag, there are still human stories – broken relationships, frustration, suppressed anger, or perhaps something deep. No one is defending the murder. But understand this? This is a social responsibility.These women have not only defied the law. They rejected expectations. And this is not just shocking their crimes – but reveals.