Did Suchana Seth Kill 4-Yr-Old Son Due to 'Her Husband'? Shocking Details of B'luru Murder Case

Suchana Seth, the CEO of The Mindful AI Lab arrested for the murder of her four-year-old son, reportedly did not want her estranged husband to meet her child, and hence killed him.

A report by India Today quoted Goa DGP Jashpal Singh as saying that a local court had granted the father permission to meet his child on Sundays. However, the accused woman did not want her estranged husband to meet their son.

The report further quoted top police sources as saying that the couple tied the knot in 2010, and their son was born in 2019. However, disputes led to them filing for a divorce in 2020.

Under pressure and driven by the desire to stop her ex-husband from seeing their son, the accused planned a trip to Goa with her child. She killed the child in the hotel room in North Goa ahead of the scheduled meet, IT stated.

Police is yet to find the real motive but officers suspect that the sour relationship with husband Venkat Raman led to the horrific crime. “Their divorce proceedings are in the final stage,” said Nidhin Valsan, Superintendent of Police, North Goa.

A report in NDTV stated that during interrogation Suchana told police that her relationship with her husband remained strained and that she was unhappy over a court order.

Officials said her husband was in Indonesia at the time of the incident. “We have informed him about the murder and asked him to return to India,” Valsan said.

The 39-year-old chief executive officer was arrested by Goa police from Chitradurga in Karnataka on Sunday night after she travelled with the dead son’s body to the south Indian state.

According to Seth’s LinkedIn page, she is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of start-up Mindful AI Lab and was among the top ‘100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics for 2021’.

She checked into a rented service apartment at Candolim in North Goa on January 6 along with her son, Calangute police station inspector Paresh Naik said.

After staying there for two days, she informed the apartment staff that she wanted to go to Bengaluru for some work and asked them to arrange for a taxi, he said.

“The staff suggested that she could take a flight to Bengaluru which would be a cheaper option rather than hiring a taxi which is an expensive proposition,” he said.

The accused insisted that she would travel by taxi only, and accordingly a vehicle was arranged on January 8 in which she left early morning.

Later, when the apartment staff went to clean the room in which she stayed, they found blood stains on a towel, Naik said.

“The management of the apartment immediately informed the Calangute police, who then reached the spot,” he said.

The staff also informed that the woman’s four-year-old son was not seen with her when she left the apartment and she was also carrying an unusually heavy bag, he said.

The police then called the accused and enquired with her about the blood stains and her “missing” son.

“The accused told us that the blood stains were due to her monthly periods. She also told us that her son was with her friend in Margao town (in South Goa) and provided the address,” the official said.

Naik said he immediately took the help of Fatorda police (near Margao) and got to know the address given by her was fake.

The inspector later spoke over phone to the taxi driver, who was on way to Bengaluru and had reached Chitradurga district in Karnataka, to take the accused to the nearest police station.

The police in Chitradurga checked the woman’s bag in which they found the body of the child, Naik said.

A team of the Calangute police then rushed to Chitradurga and obtained a transit remand of the accused, who was being brought to Goa.