What can be crueler than 5 men hitting a pregnant woman? It was almost a cold-blooded murder. Maya killing Rishi cannot be justified in any way but she felt that killing Rishi is the way to make MJ & others realize what it means to lose someone near & dear. Karma had to hit back MJ in one way or the other. As per the plot, Rishi had to die if it was not in Maya's hands. If Rudra gets to know Maya X MJ's relationship, that will shatter him for sure but I wonder how Ananya will react if she gets to know Sudihir's & MJ's crimes.
They had almost killed Manvi after having killed her unborn child. If MJ didn't want the child, he should have told her that he does not want the child & cooked up some stories & convinced Manvi to abort the child instead of this drama.
Some say that we only saw from Maya's POV, not from MJ's perspective. No matter whatever version he gives does not justify his actions. Just because Maya refused to accept his flowers, it does not mean that he should spoil the life of an innocent girl. Yes, Maya did try to take media help which might have been a stupid step but that cannot be measured with MJ's playing with her emotions. After watching this episode, I strongly disagree with that. Maya at least gave Rishi an easy death but MJ & others gave her 10X worse than that. Not only that MJ also killed her father & brother. I wonder how Nandini didn't know that her husband & son died. I wish Maya had not killed Rishi she could have found some other way to give the pain to MJ.