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4-year-old son of Indian AI startup CEO, Doctors say the man currently in custody after the killing died of asphyxiation.
Kumar Naik, an office worker at Hiriyur taluk hospital, reportedly told reporters that “a cloth or a pillow was used” to kill Suchana Seth's child.
“It does not appear that the child was strangled by hand. It appears that a pillow or other object was used,” he added.
Seth, who heads the Mindful AI Lab, remained in police custody on Wednesday after being arrested in the southern state of Karnataka on Monday.
Indian AI startup CEO Suchana Seth arrested for murder of 4-year-old son: Report
According to reports, Suchana Seth was arrested after her son went missing while staying at a hotel in Goa and was later found dead. (LinkedIn)
Paresh Naik, a Goa police official, said Seth had checked into a hotel in Goa on Saturday, but the boy went missing when he checked out on Monday night, according to Reuters.
Naik told the news agency that hotel cleaning staff found bloodstains in Seth's room and informed the police.
“When we opened the package, we found the dead body of a child,” North Goa Police Superintendent Nidin Varsa said, Reuters reported.
The child was buried in Bengaluru on Wednesday, India Today reported.
Suchana Seth was photographed being escorted by police in the Indian state of Goa on Tuesday, January 9th. (Reuters photo)
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The website quoted hotel staff as saying that Seth wanted to go to Bangalore for work and asked them to arrange a taxi. This was a more expensive option than flying, which the hotel staff recommended.
India Today added that when police questioned Seth about bloodstains allegedly found in her room, the 39-year-old woman said the bloodstains were caused by her menstrual cycle. She also reportedly told authorities that her child was staying with a friend in Margao city but provided a fake address.
Meanwhile, in Bengaluru, police visited the address listed for her AI startup and instead found a co-working space occupied by about 200 people from other companies, The Times of India reported. This was reported based on local authorities.
Seth's LinkedIn page describes her as “an AI ethics expert and data scientist with over 12 years of experience leading data science teams and scaling machine learning solutions at startups and industry labs.” Berkman Klein Center Fellow.” She is at Harvard University. ”
When police went to Seth's business address in Bengaluru, India, they instead found a co-working space occupied by someone else, according to the Times of India. (Dhiraj Singh/via Bloomberg/Getty Images)
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According to his LinkedIn page, one of Seth's former professors at the University of Calcutta, where he earned his master's degree in physics, told the Times of India that Seth was “academic” and that “she “I was surprised that someone could commit such a heinous act,” he said. crime. ”
