Bengaluru Woman Who Allegedly Killed Her Minor Son, Caught in Karnataka’s Chitradurga District

A Bengaluru woman, Suchana Seth, who allegedly killed her minor four year old son in a Goa hotel, was upset with a court order that permitted her husband to spend time with her son on Sunday. 

She is supposedly the CEO of startup company ‘The Mindful AI Lab.’ Her LinkedIn profile indicates that she was highly accomplished with respect to her career and academics. 

Suchana Seth and her husband P R Venkat Raman’s divorce proceedings had begun in 2022. 

According to documents accessed by NDTV, she filed domestic violence charges against her husband P R Venkat Raman in August last year. The husband however refuted the allegations during the divorce proceedings. 

A senior police officer told ANI that the couple were quarrelling over visitation rights. The court had granted visitation rights to the father wherein he could visit his son every Sunday. 

Reports say that Suchana Seth booked into a hotel in North Goa with her son on Saturday and checked out on Monday. She carried a bag in her hand. After she checked out, the hotel staff entered her room to clean but to their surprise  discovered blood- stains in her room. 

On being contacted by the hotel staff, the police acted swiftly. The cops called Suchana to enquire about her son’s whereabouts. She explained to them that her son was at a friend’s place and gave them a fake address. The address being fake, the police contacted the cab driver and told him to divert the cab to a nearby police station in Chitradurga. 

The accused, 39, has now  been caught in Karnataka’s Chitradurga district. They found her son’s body in a large bag. 

Preliminary investigations suggest that the four year old child was smothered most probably by a pillow. 

"The killing took place over 36 hours ago. His face and chest are swollen due to suffocation, and the child's nose was bleeding," Dr Kumar Naik, from the Hiriyur Hospital, told reporters Tuesday night.
Dr Naik also said there was no sign of blood loss or marks of struggle.
Investigations on this case are underway and police are still trying to establish the main motive behind the killing.