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The Goa police have discovered empty bottles of a cough syrup in a room the place the CEO of a start-up allegedly killed her four-year-old son, indicating she might need given a heavy dose of the drugs to him and that it was pre-planned homicide, an official stated right this moment.

The postmortem has revealed the kid was smothered to loss of life both with a fabric or a pillow, as per officers.

The accused girl, Suchana Seth, allegedly killed her son within the condo at Candolim in Goa and stuffed the physique in a bag earlier than taking it to neighbouring Karnataka in a taxi, police stated.

She was arrested from Chitradurga in Karnataka on Monday evening and dropped at Goa on Tuesday.

A senior police officer advised Press Trust of India that in the course of the inspection of the service condo room the place the girl stayed, they discovered two empty bottles (one massive and one other small) of a cough syrup.

“The post-mortem conducted on the body has indicated the possibility that the child might have been smothered to death and there were no signs of struggle,” he stated.

“We are examining the possibility if the woman gave a heavy dose of cough syrup to the child before putting him to death,” the official stated.

Enquiries with the service condo workers revealed the girl had requested them to purchase a small bottle of a cough syrup claiming she was having cough, he stated, including the larger bottle might need been carried by her.

“It looks like a pre-planned murder,” the official stated.

According to police sources, the accused has denied her involvement within the crime in the course of the interrogation and claimed the kid was already lifeless when she received up from sleep.

“We don’t buy her theory. Further investigation will reveal the motive behind killing the child. As of now, we know that she and her husband were estranged because of which she might have done this,” a senior police official stated.

Suchana Seth checked within the service condo on January 6 and stayed there until January 8 earlier than leaving for Bengaluru in a taxi.

Following her arrest, a court docket in Mapusa city of Goa on Tuesday remanded her in police custody for six days.

The kid’s father, Venkat Raman, who was in Jakarta (Indonesia), reached Hiriyur in Chitradurga on Tuesday evening and took possession of his son’s physique after postmortem.

“He was strangled to death or what we call smothering. Either a cloth or a pillow was used. The child died due to strangulation. It doesn’t look like the child was strangulated using hands. It looks like a pillow or some other material was used. The rigor mortis (postmortem muscle stiffness) had resolved in the child,” Hiriyur Taluk Hospital’s administrative officer Dr Kumar Naik advised reporters.

Suchana Seth is the CEO of ‘The Mindful AI Lab’, and in accordance with her LinkedIn profile, she is an AI ethics professional and information scientist with over 12 years of expertise in mentoring information science groups, and scaling machine studying options at startups and trade analysis labs.
 

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