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Indian Journal of Psychological Science

ISSN 0976-9218

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Between Suicide and Shared Psychotic Disorder: A Socio- Cultural Analysis of the Burari Mass Suicide

Indian Journal of Psychological Science July 1, 2026 Asha Mundani

Purpose: The Burari deaths of 2018, presents a unique case of ritualistic mass hanging, in which eleven members of an Indian family perished inside their Delhi home. While the case is legally recorded as mass suicide, it is difficult to categorize this fatal event based on the psychiatric analyses, which indicated that the family members enacted mass suicide under the influence of shared...