Goa court extends police custody of Bengaluru startup CEO Suchana Seth in child murder case. Details here
smothering her son in a Goa service apartment and attempting to transport his body to Bengaluru. She has been booked by the Calangute police under Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 302 (murder) and 201 (destruction of evidence), and also under the Goa Children's Act. Suchana Seth is the Chief Executive Officer of a startup called ‘Mindful AI Lab’.
She was among the top ‘100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics for 2021’, according to her LinkedIn page. On 13 January, Venkat Raman arrived at Calangute police station to record his statement with the police. The official told PTI that Raman told the police that divorce proceedings between him and Seth were underway in a family court in Bengaluru.
Raman also claimed the court had given him visitation rights but Seth had not allowed him to meet his son for the past five Sunday, the official said as reported by PTI. Raman was in Indonesia when his son was murdered. On 11 January, Police had recovered a five-sentence note purportedly written by Seth who allegedly killed his four-year-old son in a Goa hotel room.
The investigators said that it could be the key to unlock the motive behind the crime. On the condition of anonymity, the officer told HT, “The pieces of the tissue were found in her luggage bag and our forensic team has recovered it and painfully pieced it together. It indicates that the accused didn’t want her son to go with the father and offers insights into her state of mind.
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