A bitter custody battle with husband culminated in tragic killing of her son?

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: The Goa police said that they will take the CEO of a startup, Suchana Seth, who is accused of killing her four-year-old child, to the service apartment where she had stayed to recreate the crime scene, officials said.

The latest revelations of the gruesome murder have emerged, with police saying that the accused woman, 39, had asked the father, Venkat Raman, to come to India and meet his son, a few days before committing the crime.

Suchana Seth is accused of murdering her son in a hotel room in Goa, reportedly over a bitter custody battle with her husband, Raman.

Police sources stated that the woman has so far shown no remorse, either over the death of her child, or her role in it.

During the probe, police found that Seth had on January 6 messaged her estranged husband and told him that he could meet the child the next day, police sources said.

But Seth did not reveal that she and her child were in Goa so that Raman could not meet his son.

Raman was in Bengaluru and according to sources, had replied to Suchana's message and reached the place where Suchana said she would come with their son.

He reportedly waited for two hours, called and messaged Suchana, but got no response. He then left for Indonesia on the same day, police sources said.

Police to recreate crime scene

Goa police said that Suchana Seth will be taken to the crime scene on Friday for Mahazar, as this is required to ascertain the exact motive behind the murder.

The accused woman allegedly killed her son in the apartment at Candolim in Goa where she checked in on January 6 and stayed there till January 8.

She stuffed the body of her child in a bag before taking it to Karnataka in a taxi, police said. She was arrested from Chitradurga on Monday night and was again brought to Goa on Tuesday for interrogation.

Seth, who has told interrogators about her troubled marriage, is in police custody for six days, but officials were yet to find the motive behind the crime.

The post-mortem conducted on the body has indicated the possibility that the child might have been smothered to death and there were no signs of struggle.

The child's father, Venkat Raman, who was in Jakarta, reached Hiriyur in Chitradurga on Tuesday night and took possession of his son's body after the postmortem.

The child's body was cremated in Bengaluru on Wednesday by his father.

The Goa Police also recovered two empty bottles of cough syrup from the service apartment where the CEO allegedly killed her minor son, indicating she may have given a heavy dose of the medicine to him in signs of premeditated murder.