It's just paranoia, no science behind it, says experts

Similarly, another woman says Tamil Nadu police are controlling her thoughts. She said that she once met an acquaintance who invited her to lunch and after the meal told her to move on in life just as her husband had after their divorce. "She said she later learnt that the man was Tamil, just as her ex-husband was, and that they had knowledge of her thoughts obtained through tapping by the Tamil Nadu police," a commission official said.
Psychiatrists say these are examples of paranoia and there is no current science to control one's brains or monitor one's thoughts in the ways described by the complainants.
National Institute of Mental Health & Neuro Sciences (Nimhans) director B N Gangadhar said: "It is unusual to feel this way. It is paranoia. Sometimes people begin to fear things they are exposed to in real life, or what they talk or read about (even if it does not exist)."
Saxena said the commission would consult Nimhans for expertise. "I am sure they are in need of professional help, but that can only happen if they volunteer. We are also consulting some professionals and will also take Nimhans's help," she said.
Another psychiatrist, Kannan G K, said: "This certainly is paranoia, but we must be clear that not all cases of paranoia can be termed as mental illness." He added that he has seen several such cases.
In one case, he said, a person in Chennai he treated was paranoid about the Tamil Nadu chief minister having had a chip inserted into his brain. "There have been multiple cases. Some have had fears of the FBI monitoring them, others said the Indian government was listening to their thoughts," he told TOI from Chennai. Psychiatrists say such paranoia is known to exist among people who have limited their exposure to closed groups that discuss only certain kinds of issues.
Saxena also said these are not the only absurd complaints she has received and that there are tens of such cases where they are helpless.
"In one case, a Muslim boy of marriageable age came to us saying he was in love with a Hindu girl and sought help to marry her. It is common to find families creating problems in inter-religion or inter-caste marriages, so we began our investigation. But the girl told us that she had never met the boy and that they had never even spoken before. The boy later told us he had seen her in a magazine and fallen in love with her. He said he was undergoing a lot of trauma and we should help him marry," she said.