New Delhi: Suchana Seth, 39, CEO of a Bengaluru-based AI startup, has been charged with murdering her four-year-old son at a service apartment in Candolim, North Goa. She was apprehended by Goa police in Karnataka's Chitradurga while she was trying to flee in a cab with the child's body stuffed in a bag.


An official said she was transported to Goa on Tuesday and has been placed in police detention for six days by a court in Mapusa town.


SP Nidhin Valsan, North Goa said that as per preliminary investigation, the tension in the relationship with her husband was the reason behind the murder.


Who Is Suchana Seth?



  • Seth is the founder and CEO of an artificial intelligence start-up called Mindful AI Lab. She has been leading the organisation for over four years.


  • According to Suchana Seth's profile description on LinkedIn, she 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 and industry research labs”.


  • Seth worked as an affiliate and fellow at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University for two years in Boston, Massachusetts. She contributed to the ethics and governance of Artificial Intelligence and Responsible machine learning.


  • According to her LinkedIn page, Seth worked as a Senior Data Scientist at Boomerang Commerce in Bangalore before she founded The Mindful AI Lab. She used to design data-driven products for price optimization and intelligence. 


  • She also worked as a senior analytics consultant at the company's Data Sciences Group. She also filed two patents during this period, as per her LinkedIn profile.


  • Seth holds a first-class M.Sc. degree in Physics from the University of Calcutta. She specialises in plasma physics with astrophysics.


  • She also holds a postgraduate diploma in Sanskrit from Ramakrishna Mission Institute Of Culture.


  • She completed her B.Sc. in Physics (Honours) from Bhawanipur Education Society College in Kolkata.


  • Nidhin Valsan, Superintendent of Police (North Goa), said Seth is from West Bengal and has been residing in Bengaluru, while her husband is from Kerala.


What We Know About The Case


The 39-year-old entrepreneur smothered her son to death in a room at the Candolim service apartment where they checked in on January 6, according to a senior police officer.


After committing the heinous act, she attempted to commit suicide by slashing her left wrist with a sharp weapon, police claimed on Tuesday, citing preliminary findings, news agency PTI reported. 


The motivation for the heinous murder was not immediately clear, although Seth informed police that she and her husband were separated and that divorce procedures were in the works.


According to authorities, after killing her kid, the start-up CEO packed the corpse in a bag and took a cab to Bengaluru on Monday.


The murder was discovered when the apartment's housekeeping staff went to clean the room where she stayed and saw blood traces on the towel, according to them.


The management of the service flat notified the Calangute police.


A police inspector called the cab driver, who was on his way to Bengaluru and had arrived in the Karnataka district of Chitradurga and asked him to take the accused to the nearest police station. A Calangute police squad hurried to Chitradurga and got a transit remand for the culprit, who was then transported to Goa.


According to the official, Seth has been charged under Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 302 (murder) and 201 (destruction of evidence), as well as the Goa Children's Act.