Suchana Seth attempted suicide after killing her son in Goa apartment, says police | India News
Suchana Seth, who has been sent to 6 days in police custody, was caught in Karnataka’s Chitradurga district while trying to flee in a cab with her son’s body stuffed in a bag.
Initial probe has revealed that after smothering her son to death , the 39-year-old tried to commit suicide by cutting her left wrist with a sharp object.
“The blood stains that were found on a towel in the service apartment were due to the slashing of her wrist,” a senior police official said.
The motive behind the gruesome murder of the child has not be ascertained but Seth told the police she and her husband were estranged and that their divorce proceedings were currently underway.
How Seth was arrested
After killing her son, Seth stuffed her son’s body in a bag and left for Bengaluru in a taxi on Monday. The murder came to light when the apartment’s house-keeping staff went to clean the room in which she stayed and found blood stains on the towel.
The service apartment management informed the Calangute police. A police inspector spoke over the 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.
According to Seth’s LinkedIn page, she is the CEO of start-up Mindful AI Lab and was among the top ‘100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics for 2021’.
Seth has been booked under Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 302 (murder) and 201 (destruction of evidence), and also under the Goa Children’s Act, said an official.
Superintendent of Police (North Goa) Nidhin Valsan said the woman hails from West Bengal and has been living in Bengaluru, while her husband is from Kerala. He is currently in Jakarta (Indonesia) and has been informed about the incident, Valsan said.
“The body of the 4-year-old boy has been shifted to a hospital in Aimangala. After the postmortem of the body, it will be handed over to Goa Police,” said Kumar Naik, health inspector at Hiriyur government hospital in Karnataka’s Chitradurga district.
(With inputs from agencies)
