It’s the nature of the beast. In the anonymity of cyberspace, you can have an online personality. You can have multiple personalities. “You could be an aggressive gamer online on PUBG, and the sweetest guy wooing a girl on a dating site,” says cyber psychologist and psychotherapist Nirali Bhatia. “People can have a fragmented sense of self and are easily able to compartmentalise their various personalities in an online world. You could be dating a chef, who not only cooks, but well, can also use his knife skills elsewhere.”

She’s referring, of course, to Aftab Poonawala’s alleged strangling, hacking and freezing of partner Shraddha Walkar, 27, in their flat in Chhatarpur Pahadi, Delhi. Poonawala, 28, was on multiple online dating platforms after allegedly murdering her on May 18.