India, July 5 -- In the same week, in Bengaluru, there were two murders and one attempted murder that barely got a few inches of space and as much airtime in the media. The victims were all young women: Ati Hangma was killed by her boyfriend over a suspicion of infidelity. Anjali was stabbed in the neck after she and her family rejected a man with a criminal record, and Ramya survived jumping out of a car that her partner of six years had turned into a bomb. Male violence against women has become so expected that it causes no surprise; the cultural discomfort sets in when it's a woman who kills.

What turned into a news feeding frenzy was another young woman, Shwetha, who with the help of Kenneth, her secret boyfriend, allegedly killed he...