CALANGUTE: When confronted by police,
Suchana Seth
herself opened the bag which contained her four-year-old son's body beneath
clothes
, said her car's
driver
on Thursday. The
murder
came to light at a
police
station in Chitradurga district of Karnataka on Monday afternoon.
Rayjohn D'Souza was driving the tourist taxi in which Suchana was ferrying the body.
Describing the events which led to the arrest of the AI expert, D'Souza said he received a call from Calangute police around 10.30am on Monday while he was heading to Bengaluru.
The cops used Konkani so that Suchana would not be alerted to the looming arrest.
"Police asked how many passengers I had, and I said I had one woman," D'Souza said. "They asked if a child was with her, and I said there wasn't." Police then told D'Souza that blood had been found in the Candolim hotel room where Suchana had been staying.
Police told D'Souza to hand over the phone to Suchana. "After the conversation ended, police told me that she had claimed her child was under somebody else's care," he said. "After about 20 minutes, they called me and said the address she had given was false and they were 100% certain she was fleeing after some wrongdoing."
Police told D'Souza to stop at the nearest police station or to take help from the first cop he saw.
"All the signs were in Kannada, which I can't read," D'Souza said. "We had crossed Hubballi and the road was empty. We passed two toll nakas, but no cop was in sight."
D'Souza stopped at a restaurant under the pretext of using the toilet. "A watchman directed me to a police station that lay 500 metres ahead," he said. "I found a constable outside the station and I gave him my phone. The constable spoke to the Calangute police inspector and then the local police inspector got involved."
Suchana remained in the car and even asked D'Souza why they had stopped at a police station. "Shortly thereafter, the local PI told her to open the bag," D'Souza said. She was taken into custody when the body was found.
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