MP: Woman who killed husband, 2 kids claims she believed she was a goddess

Bhopal: A 30-year-old woman from Madhya Pradesh facing life imprisonment for killing her husband, two children and wounding seven others has claimed that she did so because she thought she was a goddess.

According to a report in Hindustan Times, the woman wants the Supreme Court to set her free for her actions of four years ago, claiming she had no motive to kill her family members, but attacked them with a pincer when a tantric was treating her for a “mental illness”.

Both the lower court and the High Court have convicted Rajwa Kol, but a bench headed by justice SA Bobde agreed to hear Kol’s appeal. Kol’s lawyer Dushyant Parashar contended she suffered from “delusions of grandeur”, and asserted that the courts before ignored the doctor’s report confirming Kol’s condition.

“When the patient was brought to the hospital she was in an aggressive mood and was talking too much. She was in an abnormal state. She used to call herself devi (goddess) and it seemed to her that she could punish any enemy,” the doctor said in his report.

Hailing from Sidhi district in Madhya Pradesh, Kol went on a murder spree on March 3, 2012, killing her family members first and then assaulting seven people in a 12-hour rampage before she was subdued by locals.

In November 2015, the trial court convicted Kol and sentenced her to death, but in February this year, the High Court commuted the sentence to life imprisonment.

But both courts dismissed Kol’s plea for immunity, and hence she has approached the apex court.