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A 39-year-old Bengaluru start-up founder allegedly murdered her four-year-old son in Goa and travelled to Karnataka with his body before she was caught.
Suchana Seth, who co-founded artificial intelligence start-up Mindful AI Labs, was arrested in Karnataka's Chitradurga on Monday with her son's body in a bag. She allegedly killed her young son in an apartment in north Goa's Candolim.
Ms Seth checked into the Sol Banyan Grande in North Goa's Candolim with her son on Saturday. On Monday, she checked out of the room alone and asked the hotel staff to book her a taxi to Bengaluru. She insisted on taking a taxi despite being advised to take a flight, the staff said.
The staff noticed that her son was missing and informed the management.
After she left, the staff also noticed blood stains in her apartment. They informed the police, who called the taxi driver and asked to speak to Ms Seth. When she was asked about her son, she claimed he was with a friend and gave an address, which turned out to be fake.
The police then called the driver again. Speaking in Konkani to make sure Ms Seth could not understand, the police asked the driver to divert the cab to the nearest police station in Chitradurga.
The police arrested Ms Seth at the station and the body of her son was found inside the bag she was traveling with.
According to the LinkedIn page of Mindful AI Labs, Ms Seth was among the top "100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics for 2021". Her own LinkedIn account says she was a fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Centre and a data scientist with over 12 years of experience in mentoring data science teams, and scaling machine learning solutions at start-ups and industry research labs.
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