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The father of the four-year-old boy killed by his mother in Goa returned to India from Jakarta on Tuesday evening when he heard about his child's murder, police said.
The man, Venkat Raman, arrived in Chitradurga in Karnataka and gave permission to local authorities to conduct an autopsy on his son's body, they said.
The child was allegedly smothered to death by his mother, Suchana Seth, the CEO of an artificial intelligence start-up. The incident took place between January 6 and 8 at a service apartment in North Goa's Candolim, police said.
The woman had checked into the serviced apartment with her son on January 6. After staying there for two days, she left for Bengaluru in a taxi on January 8 morning. When apartment staff went to clean the room she was staying in, they found blood stains on a towel. The staff immediately notified police and told them she was carrying an unusually heavy bag and had not been seen with her, officials said.
Police in Goa contacted their counterparts in Chitradurga, who checked the woman's bag in which they found the child's body. She was arrested there and later taken to Goa, where a court kept her in police custody for six days, they said.
According to Goa police, Seth told them that she and her husband were estranged and their divorce proceedings were currently underway.
A senior police official said: “Raman, who was in Jakarta (Indonesia), was approached by police and narrated the incident. He then returned to India. On his arrival at Chitradurga in the evening, he consented to a post-mortem on the body of his child.” According to police, as per initial investigation, the woman suffocated her son to death before attempting suicide by slitting her wrist to cut.
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