In an appalling incident, a 39-year-old woman CEO of an artificial intelligence start-up has been arrested for murdering her 4-year-old son in Goa. The woman also traveled with the deceased’s body to Karnataka. She was arrested with the body of her son in Karnataka’s Chitradurga district on Monday (January 8, 2024).
The woman had stuffed the cadaver in a bag and was travelling to the state in southern India in a cab with it.
Killer is the co-founder of Mindful AI Labs
The accused woman has been identified as Suchana Seth, who is the co-founder of artificial intelligence start-up Mindful AI Labs. Seth allegedly killed her son in an apartment in Goa’s Candolim.
There are reports that the 39-year-old had checked in into the Sol Banyan Grande Hotel in Candolim on Saturday (January 6, 2024) and checked out on Monday morning.
The woman asked the hotel staff to book a cab for Bengaluru
The woman asked the hotel staff to book a cab for Karnataka’s Bengaluru. The hotel staff requested the woman to take a flight instead of going by cab, to which the woman denied and insisted that she wanted to go by a cab. The hotel staff then booked a cab for the woman. They grew suspicious and noticed that her child was not with her at the time of her departure from the hotel.
The hotel staff also found blood stains inside the room. They informed the police, after which the cops called the cab driver on his phone and asked him to give the phone to Seth.
Police questioned Seth about her son, to which she replied that he went with his friends and also gave an address to the officials. The address turned out to be fake.
Police directed cab driver to take her to nearest police station
The police again called on the phone of the cab driver and asked him to take the cab to a nearest police station. The police and the cab driver talked in Konkani so that the woman does not understand anything. The cab driver took the cab to Chitraguda Police Station where the woman was arrested and the body of her son was found inside the bag.
Motive behind the murder is not clear yet
The motive behind the murder is not clear yet, however, the police have arrested the woman and initiated an inquiry into the matter.
Suchana Seth’s LinkedIn pages stated that she was among the “100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics for 2021” and was also a fellow at Berkman Klein Centre of Harvard University.
She has an experience of 12 years in mentoring data science teams and also machine learning solutions.
(The article is published under a mutual content partnership arrangement between The Free Press Journal and Connected to India)