Strained relations and a potential custody battle may have led a Bengaluru-based CEO of a start-up to allegedly murder her four-year-old son at a hotel in Goa, the state police said on Tuesday. According to police, Suchana Seth was caught from Karnataka’s Chitradurga district while trying to flee in a cab with her son’s body stuffed in a bag.
“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… the motive is still not confirmed,” North Goa Superintendent of Police Nidhin Valsan said.
An officer said that “as per a recent court order, her husband was supposed to get custody of the child on Sundays, though all of this is being verified”.
