Murder

[Neil Young]

Naga girl's murder: IIT scholar is a pervert, say police
IANS 26 October 2009, 07:07pm IST


NEW DELHI: A 34-year-old PhD scholar of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, who was arrested for the murder of a Nagaland teenager,
is of "pervert and maniacal" nature and suffers from obsessive compulsive disorder, Delhi Police said on Monday.

"Pushpum Sinha is suffering from obsessive compulsive disorder. And some articles showing his pervert nature and maniacal obsession have been recovered from his rented room," deputy commissioner of police (south) HGS Dhaliwal told reporters here.

Sinha, who is unmarried, was arrested late on Monday after four hours of intense questioning by police. According to the police he has confessed to strangulating his 19-year-old neighbour, Ramchanphy Hongray, in her Munirka home in south Delhi. He then burnt the girl's face to mislead the police into thinking she got killed in an accidental fire.

The police have ruled out rape.

Recounting the events, the police said that on Saturday around 4.30pm., Sinha found that the girl was alone in the house. He entered the kitchen where she was and made advances towards her. When she protested, he got scared and strangled her to death.

"He feared that the girl would report about him to others and he would face police action. He then torched her face. But because of the fire, her torso also suffered 30 percent burn injuries," Dhaliwal said.

Earlier, the police thought it was a case of accidental fire. However, the post-mortem examination revealed that she did not die of burns but had been strangulated.

Dhaliwal said the girl's sister Timila, who works in a Delhi restaurant, had during the investigations raised suspicions about her next door neighbour Sinha.

"Timila said he was trying to befriend her sister but there was never any occasion when she had made any complaint about him. On Diwali they had burnt fire crackers together, so he mistakenly thought that she was attracted to him," Dhaliwal said.

He said that Sinha, a B. Tech from Allahabad University and M.Sc (Engg.) from IISc Bangalore, was suffering from obsessive compulsive disorder - a mental disorder characterized by intrusive thoughts that produce anxiety and repetitive behaviour aimed at reducing anxiety, or by a combination of such obsessions and behaviour compulsions.

"His dairy, laptop and writing on the walls suggest that he was a pervert and suffers from maniacal obsession," he added.

A police officer said that in his dairy Sinha has scribbled that everyone should have a girlfriend and whenever he had tried, he had failed. He also wrote that he was unable to get married yet.

 

[Hellhound]

People with OCD don't kill other people =/ He probably had other more serious issues and was also a bastard.

Great. Now everybody are going to believe that people with anxiety problems are psycho killers...

 

[FountainandFairfax]

Obviously he had more problems than OCD. The shoddy way he covered his tracks and the fact that he murdered someone so close to him point to that. He was also clearly psychotic and delusional at the time of the murder.

A normal person doesn't burn someone's face off to cover their tracks, even if they kill someone in the heat of passion.

It sounds like the writer isn't very well-informed on OCD, and also is at best callous when referring to mental disorders. Describing someone as a perverted maniac is a poorly chosen, blanket-term that went out of relevance with lobotomies and phrenology.

 

[Harleyq]

Obviously he had more problems than OCD. The shoddy way he covered his tracks and the fact that he murdered someone so close to him point to that. He was also clearly psychotic and delusional at the time of the murder.

A normal person doesn't burn someone's face off to cover their tracks, even if they kill someone in the heat of passion.

It sounds like the writer isn't very well-informed on OCD, and also is at best callous when referring to mental disorders. Describing someone as a perverted maniac is a poorly chosen, blanket-term that went out of relevance with lobotomies and phrenology.

That's along the lines of what I was thinking when I was reading the article but judging by the poor grammar, the location, and the misspellings, it's quite obvious that the article was translated without a proper editor to clean it up. So the original article might have used better terms than "perverted maniac" but the people who translated and released it in English screwed it up.

Or maybe the original article really did call him "perverted and maniacal". Either way, somebody should be ashamed that this piece of "journalism" was ever released. It's misleading and doesn't really say much of anything.

 

[klytus]

Mh. This is similar to the following phenomenon: Whenever there's a school shooting, or a like event, the news never forget to mention a couple of times in a row what a loner the aggressor was, that he wasn't socially integrated and mostly kept to himself. That only makes the general population think of the more introverted as potential killers, which is very off-putting.

 

[Jake123]

Mh. This is similar to the following phenomenon: Whenever there's a school shooting, or a like event, the news never forget to mention a couple of times in a row what a loner the aggressor was, that he wasn't socially integrated and mostly kept to himself. That only makes the general population think of the more introverted as potential killers, which is very off-putting.

I got suspended in middle school until I had a psychological evaluation because there were rumors spread by everyone in the school that I was going to shoot everyone or blow it up. It was around the Columbine incident and schools were on "high alert" for "loners" like me. (I never actually said anything or did something that would be seen as a threat)

They even checked my bookbag for guns.

 

[Hellhound]

I got suspended in middle school until I had a psychological evaluation because there were rumors spread by everyone in the school that I was going to shoot everyone or blow it up. It was around the Columbine incident and schools were on "high alert" for "loners" like me. (I never actually said anything or did something that would be seen as a threat)

They even checked my bookbag for guns.

OH God!... What a bunch of ignorant idiotic brainless idiots! Didn't you ask where they got the idea that you would do something like that? It's really rude of them to just label you as a sicko for being an introvert. They need to grow up and educate themselves a little before pointing their judgemental fingers at everyone -.-

It's actually people like them the reason of why a lot of other people are troubled...

 

[Phobologist]

I agree with sarafina thats awful Jake.