Bengaluru: Suchana Seth, the CEO of a Bengaluru-based startup who allegedly murdered her son in Goa, might have pre-planned the crime, the Goa police have said. They have found two cough syrup bottles inside the room where the murder took place, which were allegedly used to render the victim unconscious.
Most cough syrups have chemicals that induce sleep. The Goa police suspect the accused might have administered a heavy dose of the syrups to the victim before smothering him with a pillow or cloth.
The victim couldn’t raise an alarm or make noise because he was in an inebriated state due to the drugs, they added.
Suchana Seth allegedly killed her son in an apartment at Goa’s Candolim. She later tried to escape to Karnataka after stuffing the body in a bag. She was arrested in Chitradurga after her taxi driver — alerted by the Goa police – drove her to a local police station.
The postmortem examination has revealed the four-year-old victim was smothered to death.
Suchana was on the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics List in 2021 and has been a fellow (2017-18) and affiliate (2018-19) at the Berkman Klein Centre at Harvard University, her LinkedIn profile adds.
According to her LinkedIn profile, Suchana is 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. She is the founder of The Mindful AI Lab, a technical consultancy. According to the official website, company provides customised AI ethics advisory services. It also offers to audit AI systems and data practices and co-create responsible AI roadmaps for organisations at all stages of data maturity.
Her estranged husband Venkataraman P R is a data scientist with a Ph D in Physics and a top executive with a financial services firm. On August 8, 2022, Seth had filed a domestic violence case against her husband, during the course of divorce proceedings and a custody battle for their son.
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