Why Suchana Seth Killed her Four Year Old Son
Suchana Seth Killed her Four Year Old Son .According to Seth’s LinkedIn page, she is the CEO of Mindful AI Lab and was among the top ‘100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics for 2021’.
Suchana Seth, the 39-year-old CEO of artificial intelligence startup Mindful AI Lab, arrested for allegedly killing her four-year-old son in Goa, tried to commit suicide, police said on Tuesday.
A day after Bengaluru-based artificial intelligence startup’s chief executive officer (CEO) Suchana Seth was arrested for allegedly killing her four-year-old son in a service apartment in Goa, the police visited the address listed of her company and found a co-working space instead of a particular office, The Indian Express reported.
Suchana Seth was arrested from Chitradurga in adjoining Karnataka on Monday night. After allegedly killing her minor son in Goa, she then travelled with the body to neighbouring Karnataka.
Suchana Seth Killed her Four Year Old Son was arrested from Chitradurga
On Tuesday, she was brought to Goa and remanded to police custody for six days by a court in Mapusa town.
Earlier, Superintendent of Police (North Goa) Nidhin Valsan said that the accused has been booked by the Calangute police under Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 302 (murder) and 201 (destruction of evidence), and also under the Goa Children’s Act.
Seth, who was arrested by the Goa Police from Karnataka’s Chitradurga, used to live in an apartment in Bengaluru’s Thanisandra, but when the police reached the spot, they found that she had vacated the apartment around four months ago.
According to Seth’s LinkedIn page, she is the CEO of Mindful AI Lab and was among the top ‘100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics for 2021’. Her profile description says “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 and industry research labs”.
The motive behind the murder is not known yet.
Suchana Seth and her husband were estranged and currently undergoing divorce proceedings.
“What she has told us till now is that she and her husband were estranged and that they are currently undergoing divorce proceedings,” Valsan said.
Her estranged husband is currently in Jakarta, Indonesia and he has been informed about the incident, said the police.
According to the police, on January 6 Suchana had checked into a rented service apartment at Candolim in North Goa along with her son. After staying there for two days, she informed the apartment staff that she wanted to go to Bengaluru for some work and asked them to arrange for a taxi.
The 39-year-old CEO was serving as a director of a machine intelligence-based firm registered in September 2020 and was active. “Goa police visited the office of the firm and collected information,” a Bengaluru police official told the national daily.
She has been living in Bengaluru, while her husband is from Kerala
She was also affiliated with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, a cyberspace research centre at Harvard University, Mozilla Fellow at Data & Society, and a research fellow at the Raman Research Institute.
“She has built scalable data science solutions for startups and industry research labs, and holds patents in text mining and natural language processing. Suchana believes in the power of data to drive positive change. She is also passionate about closing the gender gap in data science. In the past, Suchana has been a Mozilla Open Web Fellow at Data & Society,” the alumini page which was last updated in March 2020 said.
On January 8, a vehicle was arranged, in which she left early in the morning.
Later, when the apartment staff went to clean the room, they found blood stains on a towel.
After that, the police were immediately informed by the apartment staff.
The staff also informed that she was carrying an unusually heavy bag and her four-year-old son was not seen with her when she left the apartment.
Later, the police in Chitradurga after being alerted by the Goa police checked Suchana Seth’s bag in which they found the body of the child.
The blood stains found on a towel in the service apartment were due to the slashing of Suchana Seth’s wrist, according to the police.
The alumini page of the cyberspace research centre has decribed Seth as an “AI ethics expert and a data scientist”.
Seth, who hails from West Bengal was arrested with the body of her four-year-old stuffed into one of her luggage. She and her husband were living separately and the divorce proceedings were underway. She was also was upset about an adverse court ruling in connection with her child’s custody.
Her estranged husband, Venkat Raman, who hails from Kerala, was in Indonesia at the time of the child’s murder, and has been told to come to Goa to record his statement in connection with the case, Superintendent of police (North) Nidhin Valsan said.
According to her LinkedIn profile, she is the CEO of the startup Mindful AI Lab.
“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 and industry research labs,” says her profile page.
She has been a Mozilla Fellow at Data & Society, a fellow at the Berkman Klein Centre at Harvard University and a research fellow at the Raman Research Institute.
She was also among the top ‘100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics for 2021’.
Seth has been sent to police custody for six days by a local Goa court.
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