Rohinie Bisesar, accused of fatally stabbing a woman in a store in the underground PATH in the financial district, will undergo an assessment of her fitness to stand trial, a judge ruled Friday during a chaotic court appearance.

The order was made as Bisesar loudly protested that she did not have mental health problems, but instead needed a body scan to find a chip or object placed in her body possibly during some kind of unknown experiment.

“It can move small aspects of me, large aspects of me. It feels what I feel, it hears what I hear. It can put words in my mouth,” she said in a similar paranoid speech to one she gave last week where she cited “security” and “terrorist” concerns.

“I know it sounds really weird,” she continued before the judge interrupted to make the assessment order.

Speaking over his client, her lawyer Calvin Barry asked that Bisesar see a psychiatrist at the Centre for Addictions and Mental Heath on Tuesday.

He told the court she had been hospitalized last week on a three-day mental health order that was extended to a week.

The assessment was requested due to concerns about her ability to give instructions to her lawyer, but also due to her statements in court and the voices she has said she is hearing, Barry said.

Bisesar is charged with first-degree murder for stabbing Rosemarie Junor who was browsing the Shoppers Drug Mart in the PATH near her office on a break on the afternoon of Dec. 11.

Junor, a 28-year-old newlywed described as vibrant and kind by her family, died six days later.

Bisesar’s charges were upgraded from attempted murder to second-degree murder then to first-degree murder.

Police have said the attack on Junor appeared random – no link between the two women has been revealed.

Bisesar’s outbursts in court have shed little light on any motive for the alleged attack.

An email believed to have been sent by Bisesar to the National Post on the day of her arrest apologized for the stabbing and stated: “I felt the need to be extreme to see if it would work. I would normally not do such a thing.”

Bisesar was a familiar presence in the financial district prior to her arrest, where her immaculate appearance belied homelessness and infrequent employment since receiving an MBA in 2007.

She was quick to remind the court of her resume Friday, after recounting with outrage that a man she’d met at a bar first thought she was a sex worker.

She has three degrees, belongs to professional organizations and worked at York University and for several investment banks on Bay St., she told the court.

On Tuesday, a psychiatrist will examine Bisesar’s fitness to stand trial, an assessment that specifically looks at whether an accused person understands their charges, the consequences of the charges, what the roles of the players in the courtroom are and whether they can instruct their lawyer.

Depending on the results of the report, a fitness hearing might be scheduled to determine whether Bisesar is fit to stand trial.

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If Bisesar is found unfit to stand trial by a judge, she may be ordered to undergo treatment for a period of time and returned to court if she becomes fit to stand trial.

Bisesar is currently being kept in the medical wing of the Vanier Centre for Women in Milton where she is receiving psychiatric care, Barry told reporters.

Bisesar returns to court on May 4.