Startup CEO son's murder appears pre-planned: Goa Police

The Goa police have found two empty bottles of a cough syrup in a room where the CEO of a startup allegedly killed her fouryearold son indicating she might have given a heavy dose of the medicine to him and that it was preplanned murder an official said on WednesdayThe postmortem has revealed the child was smothered to death either with a cloth or a pillow as per officialsThe accused woman Suchana Seth allegedly killed her son in the apartment at Candolim in Goa and stuffed the body in a bag before taking it to neighbouring Karnataka in a taxi police saidShe was arrested from Chitradurga in Karnataka on Monday night and brought to Goa on TuesdayA senior police officer told PTI that during the inspection of the service apartment room where the woman stayed they found two empty bottles one big and another small of a cough syrupThe postmortem conducted on the body has indicated the possibility that the child might have been smothered to death and there were no signs of struggle he saidWe are examining the possibility if the woman gave a heavy dose of cough syrup to the child before putting him to death the official saidEnquiries with the service apartment staff revealed the woman had asked them to buy a small bottle of a cough syrup claiming she was having cough he said adding the bigger bottle might have been carried by herIt looks like a preplanned murder the official saidAccording to police sources the accused has denied her involvement in the crime during the interrogation and claimed the child was already dead when she got up from sleepWe dont buy her theory Further investigation will reveal the motive behind killing the child As of now we know that she and her husband were estranged because of which she might have done this a senior police official saidSeth checked in the service apartment on January 6 and stayed there till January 8 before leaving for Bengaluru in a taxiFollowing her arrest a court in Mapusa town of Goa on Tuesday remanded her in police custody for six daysThe childs father Venkat Raman who was in Jakarta Indonesia reached Hiriyur in Chitradurga on Tuesday night and took possession of his sons body after postmortemHe was strangled to death or what we call smothering Either a cloth or a pillow was used The child died due to strangulation It doesnt look like the child was strangulated using hands It looks like a pillow or some other material was used The rigor mortis postmortem muscle stiffness had resolved in the child Hiriyur Taluk Hospitals administrative officer Dr Kumar Naik told reportersSeth is the CEO of The Mindful AI Lab and according to her LinkedIn profile she is an AI ethics expert and data scientist with over 12 years of experience in mentoring data science teams and scaling machine learning solutions at startups and industry research labsThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever