India, June 13 -- India is witnessing a tragic and terrifying trend: the very institution meant to unite hearts and build lives-marriage-is increasingly becoming a stage for betrayal, cruelty, and even bloodshed. The brutal murder of Indore-based businessman Raja Raghuvanshi is not just an isolated incident; it is the latest entry in a growing dossier of cases where wives-often in collusion with lovers-have chosen death over divorce.

This is not love gone sour. This is love turned lethal. These are not crimes of passion but cold, calculated executions planned over weeks and executed with chilling precision. In Raja's case, his wife Sonam, in alleged collaboration with her lover Raj Kushwaha and his aides, plotted his murder barely days a...