The CEO of a Bengaluru-based firm who allegedly killed her four-year-old son at a service apartment in Goa attempted to die by suicide by slitting her left wrist.
After initial investigation, police said Suchana Seth, the CEO of Mindful AI Lab, changed her mind and left for Bengaluru with her son’s body stuffed in a bag in a tourist cab that cost her Rs 30,000.
The 39-year-old entrepreneur was arrested in Karnataka’s Chitradurga on Monday after staff at the apartment found red stains in her room and alerted the local police. The police contacted Seth’s cab driver and asked him to divert the route to the nearest police station, where the CEO was eventually arrested. The child’s body was found upon checking her luggage.
“The blood stains that were found on a towel in the service flat were due to the slashing of her wrist,” a senior police official told PTI.
Seth, who holds a master’s degree in Physics and was a topper in Sanskrit, has been remanded in police custody for six days by a local court in Goa, PTI reported.
Seth, who hails from West Bengal and has been living in Bengaluru, committed the murder to prevent her estranged husband from meeting their son as part of visitation rights. The couple’s divorce proceedings are currently underway.
Sources told India Today that Seth was reportedly unhappy after a court order allowed her estranged husband, who hails from Kerala, to meet their son every Sunday.
She apparently then planned to kill her son just a day before the scheduled meeting.
“This is what she conveyed to our investigators. The motive is yet to be confirmed. We need to review the court order before making further statements,” said Nidhin Valson, North Goa’s Superintendent of Police.
Police said Seth’s husband was not in the country during the crime. Her husband is currently in Jakarta and has been informed about the incident, PTI reported.