2 weeks Ago By Kshitiz
Patna: Recently the state was rocked by a horrific double murder and suicide at Ara railway station in Bhojpur district, where a 24-year-old man, Aman Kumar, shot dead a 16-year-old girl and her father before killing himself, while she was about to board a train for New Delhi on March 25. The girl's fault — she had rejected Aman's advances. A few days later on March 29, a similar incident took place in capital Patna, where a 21-year-old student, Rahul Raj, shot dead his 20-year-old girlfriend, Arpita, before killing himself following an altercation at Janardan Ghat off J P Ganga Path.
Raj, who hailed from Madhubani district, and Arpita, a resident of Vaishali, had come to Patna to meet each other. Earlier, on March 21, another man, Nakul Sharma (20), shot his girlfriend Aparna in leg near AIIMS-Patna in Phulwarisharif police station area. "The couple were in a relationship for several years.
They had an argument over their marriage plans, which led to the shooting," Phulwarisharif subdivisional police officer Sushil Kumar Singh had said. Though taking extreme steps after feeling jilted in love is not new, a concerning pattern has emerged in Bihar of late, where rejected suitors are resorting to violence against women, with psychologists attributing the trend to a man's possessiveness and feeling of control in relationships. The cases often involve young couples where the man feels entitled to the woman's affection and becomes aggressive when rejected.
Though police are working to bring the perpetrators to justice, rise in the frequency of such cases raises concerns about societal attitudes towards relationships and the need for awareness about consent. Head of psychiatry department at Nalanda Medical College and Hospital, Patna, Dr Santosh Kumar, attributed such violence to the growing lack of patience among youths these days. "The youth today have poor coping skills and find it difficult to cope with stress in a healthy manner.
Relations rapidly getting sore has a lot to do with their poor communication skills as well. The way out is a stronger family system, learning resilience, having a support system and encouraging the stressed to vent their feelings in a healthy manner," he said. Former Bihar director general of police (DGP), Abhyanand, highlighted the need for sociological investigations as being done in some western countries, besides the probe into the offence according to the defined law.
"The police should also look into the background of the accused, his mental condition and academic standard, while preparing the investigation report in such cases. Youths are the future of the country, so there should be a provision for mental counselling of such accused," the former DGP said. Patna: Recently the state was rocked by a horrific double murder and suicide at Ara railway station in Bhojpur district, where a 24-year-old man, Aman Kumar, shot dead a 16-year-old girl and her father before killing himself, while she was about to board a train for New Delhi on March 25.
The girl's fault — she had rejected Aman's advances. A few days later on March 29, a similar incident took place in capital Patna, where a 21-year-old student, Rahul Raj, shot dead his 20-year-old girlfriend, Arpita, before killing himself following an altercation at Janardan Ghat off J P Ganga Path. Raj, who hailed from Madhubani district, and Arpita, a resident of Vaishali, had come to Patna to meet each other.
Earlier, on March 21, another man, Nakul Sharma (20), shot his girlfriend Aparna in leg near AIIMS-Patna in Phulwarisharif police station area. "The couple were in a relationship for several years. They had an argument over their marriage plans, which led to the shooting," Phulwarisharif subdivisional police officer Sushil Kumar Singh had said.
Though taking extreme steps after feeling jilted in love is not new, a concerning pattern has emerged in Bihar of late, where rejected suitors are resorting to violence against women, with psychologists attributing the trend to a man's possessiveness and feeling of control in relationships. The cases often involve young couples where the man feels entitled to the woman's affection and becomes aggressive when rejected. Though police are working to bring the perpetrators to justice, rise in the frequency of such cases raises concerns about societal attitudes towards relationships and the need for awareness about consent.
Head of psychiatry department at Nalanda Medical College and Hospital, Patna, Dr Santosh Kumar, attributed such violence to the growing lack of patience among youths these days. "The youth today have poor coping skills and find it difficult to cope with stress in a healthy manner. Relations rapidly getting sore has a lot to do with their poor communication skills as well.
The way out is a stronger family system, learning resilience, having a support system and encouraging the stressed to vent their feelings in a healthy manner," he said. Former Bihar director general of police (DGP), Abhyanand, highlighted the need for sociological investigations as being done in some western countries, besides the probe into the offence according to the defined law. "The police should also look into the background of the accused, his mental condition and academic standard, while preparing the investigation report in such cases.
Youths are the future of the country, so there should be a provision for mental counselling of such accused," the former DGP said..
