New Delhi — Police in India have arrested the CEO of an artificial intelligence startup on suspicion of killing her 4-year-old son, whose physique was found in her baggage as she returned from a visit. Suchana Seth, CEO of The Mindful AI Lab in India’s southern know-how hub of Bengaluru, was arrested in Karnataka on Monday as she returned from the neighboring coastal state of Goa in a taxi. Police mentioned her son’s physique was discovered stuffed right into a suitcase.

The motive for the alleged homicide remained unclear, however police have mentioned that in interrogation, Seth spoke a couple of strained relationship along with her husband, from whom she’s separated.

“Prima facie, during questioning, the woman said she had strained relations with her husband and their divorce proceedings are underway… that there was some court order, because of which she was very unhappy. We have not seen the court order. She said she was separated. We have to verify all this,” Nidhin Valsan, Superintendent of Police in Goa state, informed reporters Monday.

Seth, 39, reportedly checked right into a serviced house at Hotel Sol Banyan Grande in Goa, a well-liked seaside vacation spot in western India, on Saturday along with her son. She checked out two days later, early Monday morning, and requested the resort employees to rearrange a taxi to take her again to Bengaluru, about 350 miles away.

Hotel employees prompt that she search for a flight to make the journey, however she insisted on a taxi, the police mentioned.

After she checked out resort employees went to wash her house and located blood stains on the ground, then contacted the native police instantly. The employees informed the police that Seth had checked in along with her son however checked out alone. Police contacted the taxi driver and requested him to drive to the closest police station, the place the boy’s physique was discovered.

Valsan mentioned a full autopsy examination would decide the reason for loss of life, however on Wednesday, Dr. Kumar Naik, an administrative officer on the Hiriyur Taluk Hospital the place the post-mortem was carried out, informed native media shops the kid could have been smothered to loss of life with a fabric or pillow.

Police mentioned the girl’s husband was in Indonesia however had been requested to return to Goa for questioning.

The Goa police have registered a homicide case towards Seth and a neighborhood courtroom on Tuesday remanded her into custody for an preliminary six days pending the investigation.

Seth’s LinkedIn page describes her as “an AI ethics expert and data scientist with over 12 years of experience in mentoring data science teams, and scaling machine learning solutions at startups and industry research labs.”