New Delhi:

The charges filed by the Goa police against the CEO of an artificial intelligence startup accused of killing her four-year-old son in his apartment have revealed several gruesome details of the gruesome murder. Suchana Seth faces charges of murdering her son in a Goa hotel room amid a bitter custody battle with her husband.

Suchana Seth, 39, was arrested on January 8 in Chitradurga, Karnataka, while traveling with her son’s body hidden in a bag.

The Calangute police submitted a 642-page chargesheet against Seth to the Goa Children’s Court, detailing how she murdered her son and tried to escape.

Here are the 10 details mentioned in the fee schedule:

1. Suchana Seth is embroiled in a bitter custody battle with her husband Venkat Raman. In a message on January 6, she told her estranged husband that she would see her children the next day. But when he came over, no one was home in Bangalore.
2. Suchana Seth and her son checked into a serviced apartment in Candolim on January 6 because she did not want the child to meet his father.
3. Hotel staff became suspicious when Seth checked out without his son, carrying an unusually heavy bag, and his absence immediately set off alarms.
4. When they entered her room, they found blood and a handwritten note and immediately called police.
5. In the note, she wrote about her feud with her husband and her mental exhaustion from the ongoing court proceedings.
6. The note was written with eyeliner on tissue paper. Handwriting experts have confirmed the authenticity of the note.
7. Police immediately contacted the taxi driver she booked and spoke to Seth. She claimed that she left her son at a friend’s house in Margaon and that the stain in the hotel room was menstrual blood.
8. After realizing she had given them a false address, police spoke to the taxi driver and instructed him to take her to the nearest Aimangala police station.
9. An autopsy revealed that the child had been suffocated with a piece of cloth or pillow.
10. According to officials, the child died from shock and respiratory asphyxia due to strangulation.