As psychiatrists put it, it was the same extreme impulsive nature of Ram Singh that not just dominated him while raping the 23-year-old girl but also stimulated his guilty conscience that drove him to commit suicide in the jail on Monday. “If the autopsy confirms it was a suicide, it will also confirm that the accused had extreme impulsive behaviour.
With such behaviour, the crime can be against oneself or someone else. In childhood, some develop attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. In this, children become impulsive, restless and are not able to focus,” said Sameer Malhotra, Head of Department, Mental Health and Behavioural Sciences at the Max Hospital. “Such people become anti-social personalities, called Cluster B personalities medically. Their decisions are followed by emotions and not thoughts. They don’t think before going extreme. The deceased accused had stated initially that he had no remorse or guilt-no fear of loss. This is the anti social disorder,” he added.
Another noted psychiatrist Jitendra Nagpal said extreme steps like suicide by these people are an outcome of the alienation and hopelessness while they undergo imprisonment. “Apart from the mental health of such criminals, steps like suicide are an outcome of the alienation and hopelessness sometimes. We cannot deny that accused of heinous crimes could not feel guilty but the frustration of mental understanding and the crime out to the world makes them feel alienated and with low self esteem. They see a bleak future and continue even homicides inside,” Nagpal said. At the same time, he maintained that there was a need of profiling in the early age of adults showing extreme behavior and Human rights, gender, and basic education of human morals and values must be induced at all college and
school levels. “Societal and family denial must be avoided and individual’s behaviour must be modified early in life,” he added.