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Marital dissatisfaction
Relationship stressor
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Rajitha
Suspect · Mother of the victim
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Rajitha evaluated her husband negatively when comparing him to Suru Shiva. She viewed her husband as an aging manual laborer, which intensified her internal dissatisfaction with her marriage.
Context or trigger: Reflecting on her husband's age, manual labor profile, and comparing him to her younger schoolmate.
Reported expression: Expressed feeling fed up with her husband and engaged in frequent verbal disputes.
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Narrative-supported psychological state
Confidence: High
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Extradyadic attachment
Attachment-related behavior
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Rajitha
Suspect · Mother of the victim
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After meeting her former crush Suru Shiva at a school reunion, Rajitha developed an intense emotional and romantic attachment outside her marriage, maintaining secret communications for months.
Context or trigger: Attending a Class 10 school batch reunion six months prior.
Reported expression: Engaged in clandestine phone calls, video chats, and secretive physical meetings with Suru Shiva.
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Narrative-supported psychological state
Confidence: High
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Relationship decision process
Cognitive pattern
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Rajitha
Suspect · Mother of the victim
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When faced with legal processes for divorce and child custody, Rajitha made a rationalized, violent decision that killing her children was a faster method to achieve her desired new life.
Context or trigger: Desire to leave her husband and start a new life with Shiva.
Reported expression: Calculated that divorce and legal custody processes would take too long, deciding instead to murder her children.
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Narrative-supported psychological state
Confidence: High
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Instrumental aggression
Offender behavior
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Rajitha
Suspect · Mother of the victim
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Rajitha utilized lethal force against her three children not out of sudden rage, but as an instrumental means to fulfill Shiva's condition for marriage.
Context or trigger: Shiva's prerequisite demand that Rajitha must be childless to marry him.
Reported expression: Smothered her three sleeping children with a towel to remove them as impediments.
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Narrative-supported psychological state
Confidence: High
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Premeditation and planning
Planning or impulsivity
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Rajitha
Suspect · Mother of the victim
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Rajitha waited until her husband departed for work, then phoned Shiva to announce her plan to execute the homicides that night, demonstrating deliberate temporal planning.
Context or trigger: Husband leaving home overnight for work.
Reported expression: Coordinated timing with Shiva via phone call and executed the murders while the children slept.
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Narrative-supported psychological state
Confidence: High
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Co-offender facilitation
Offender behavior
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Suru Shiva
Suspect · Lover of offender
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Suru Shiva enabled and encouraged Rajitha's homicidal intent by assuring her that eliminating her children was acceptable and would lead directly to their marriage.
Context or trigger: Rajitha proposing to kill her children.
Reported expression: Explicitly validated and encouraged the murder plan to facilitate their marriage.
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Narrative-supported psychological state
Confidence: High
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Staging or evidence concealment
Post-offense behavior
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Rajitha
Suspect · Mother of the victim
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Following the smothering of her children, Rajitha engineered a elaborate cover story by scattering food items and feigning severe physical illness to mislead investigators into suspecting accidental food toxicity.
Context or trigger: Post-homicide discovery fear and investigation avoidance.
Reported expression: Scattered rice and curd around the house and feigned acute abdominal pain to fake food poisoning.
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Narrative-supported psychological state
Confidence: High
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