Goa CEO murder: Why Suchana Seth killed her 4-year-old son? Main reason for murder?

PANAJI: The gruesome murder of a 4-year-old boy, allegedly his own mother in a hotel in Goa has baffled Goans and Indians across the country.

Artificial Intelligence startup’s chief executive officer – a highly educated, corporate business woman, Suchana Seth, who was arrested for allegedly killing her four-year-old son in a service apartment in North Goa, had tried to commit suicide after the gruesome act, police said.

But the cops are stumped as to the motive for the murder. According to our source – a friend of the accused woman, Seth was worried that her son had “seen and heard too much about her life” and was very likely to tell his father at their next meeting. Indirectly, without saying as much, the “friend” alleged that Suchana was having an affair and that her son had seen and heard it all, which could make it difficult for her.

Seth, who hails from West Bengal, had been living and working in Bengaluru. She was arrested by the Goa Police from Chitradurga in Karnataka, while she was fleeing with the body. She has been sent to police custody for six days by a local Goa magistrate’s court.

After smothering her son to death in a room at a service apartment in Candolim in North Goa, Seth reportedly cut her left wrist with a sharp object, a senior police officer told PTI. According to the police, Seth told the interrogators that she and her husband were estranged and the divorce proceedings were underway. The 39-year-old chief executive was also upset over the custody battle for her son and was disappointed and angry that her husband knew some unpleasant details about her personal life.

She suspected her son of leaking information about her to his father and was extremely upset that the custody battle was not going the way she wanted.

The police said that the blood stains found on a towel in the apartment were due to the slashing of her wrist. After allegedly killing her son, Seth had stuffed the body in a bag and left for Bengaluru in a tourist taxi on Monday. But certain injury marks on the deceased boy’s body are as yet unexplained. There are injury marks on his head and his throat seems to be slashed, which do not go well with the strangulation theory.

The hotel staff, who went to clean the room, found blood stains on the towel. The hotel management informed the Calangute Police. A police official dialled up the taxi driver and asked him to take the accused to the nearest police station in Chitradurga, after finding discrepancies in her statements. A Goa Police team reached the location and got Suchana Seth on a transit remand. “The motive behind the killing is yet to be ascertained. We have got six days police custody of the accused and we will thoroughly interrogate her,” the official said.

Seth has been arrested under Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 302 (murder) and 201 (destruction of evidence), and also under the Goa Children’s Act. According to Superintendent of Police (North Goa) Nidhin Valsan, Seth’s husband is from Kerala. He is currently in Jakarta (Indonesia) and has been informed about the incident.

The latest reports said her husband has reached India after the cops asked him to join the investigation.