The CEO of an Indian AI startup has been arrested on suspicion that she murdered her four-year-old son after his physique was present in her baggage, police mentioned on Tuesday. 

Suchana Seth, who heads The Mindful AI Lab in India’s tech hub of Bengaluru, was detained within the Chitradurga district of Karnataka state when she was getting back from the neighboring state of Goa by taxi and arrested after the physique was present in her baggage, they mentioned.

Seth couldn’t be reached for remark as she was in custody and police mentioned they didn’t know if she has a lawyer as but. Staff at her firm couldn’t be reached for remark.

Seth had checked right into a lodge together with her son in Goa on Saturday (January 6) however the boy was not together with her when she checked out on Monday (January 8) evening, Goa police inspector Paresh Naik mentioned.

Hotel cleansing workers discovered blood stains within the room after she checked out and knowledgeable the police, Naik added.

Police then bought in contact with the taxi driver by telephone and requested him to take Seth to the closest police station, he mentioned.

“When her luggage was opened, the child’s dead body was found,” North Goa Superintendent of Police Nidhin Valsan informed reporters.

Goa police introduced Seth again to the state, Valsan mentioned, including that her husband was in Indonesia and had been requested to return to India.

Reuters was unable to contact Seth’s husband or anybody in her household for remark.

An area courtroom remanded her to 6 days in police custody, information company ANI reported.

(Production: Andrea Rodriguez)