Rajasthan High Court has acquitted a woman charged with murdering a child on the ground that at the time of committing the crime, she was suffering from insanity triggered by premenstrual stress syndrome or PMS. The court relied on the testimony of three doctors who agreed that the woman suffered from severe PMS, with one doctor saying her symptoms were so severe she needed to be tranquillised.
But can PMS cause such severe symptoms?
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