In a shocking incident, a 39-year-old CEO - Suchana Seth from Bengaluru has been arrested for allegedly killing her 4-year-old son in an apartment in Goa. According to police reports on Tuesday, the woman, identified as a startup founder, is said to have hired a taxi to transport the child's body to Karnataka.
Police disclosed that the CEO, after committing the crime, concealed the boy's body inside a bag during her journey from Goa to Karnataka. The authorities have confirmed the arrest of the woman on charges of murder, and the child's body has been recovered by law enforcement, as reported in the media.
The gruesome incident took place in an apartment located in North Goa's Candolim, as per witnesses. They noted the presence of blood stains in the house, raising concerns and prompting further investigation by the police into the matter.
Seth was detained by police from Chitradurga in Karnataka on Sunday night.
The CEO told the police that she and her husband were estranged and "divorce proceedings" were on between them, a senior official said on Tuesday.
The official also said that the motive behind the murder is yet to be known as the accused woman has not been interrogated so far as she is being brought to Goa from the neighboring state.
Talking to reporters, Superintendent of Police (North) Nidhin Valsan said, "A team of Goa police, which is investigating the case, is currently in Chitradurga district in Karnataka. The accused has been formally placed under arrest and is being brought to Goa. She will be here by this afternoon."
The accused 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, he said.
The SP said that the motive behind the murder would be established only after her interrogation.
"What she has told us till now is that she and her husband were estranged and that they are currently undergoing divorce proceedings," he said.
The accused woman hails from West Bengal and has been living in Bengaluru, while her husband is from Kerala, the official said.
Her estranged husband is currently in Jakarta (Indonesia) and he has been informed about the incident, Valsan said.
According to him, the accused woman had stuffed the child's body in her “luggage".
"The exact cause of his death would be established only after a post-mortem is conducted," he said.
The police earlier said that Seth had checked into a rented service apartment at Candolim in North Goa on January 6 along with her son. 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.
Accordingly, a vehicle was arranged on January 8 which she left early in the morning. Later, when the apartment staff went to clean the room in which she stayed, they found blood stains on a towel. After that, the management of the apartment immediately informed the police.
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. The police in Chitradurga (Karnataka) later checked the woman's bag in which they found the body of the child.
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