Goa: Suchana Seth, the CEO of a Bengaluru-based AI firm who was arrested for killing her four-year-old son in January 2024 is facing fresh legal trouble while in behind bars.
30-year-old Suchana Seth is currently lodged as an undertrial at the Colvale Central Jail in Goa, allegedly assaulting a woman constable inside the prison’s Ladies Block.
According to jail officials, Seth forcibly took the inward register of the Ladies Prisoner Block on April 7, around 11.30 am, without permission. When Constable Savita Navu Varak questioned her regarding this, Seth is said to have verbally abused her using “filthy language” before physically attacking her.
A case has been filed against Seth under section 121 (1) (voluntarily causing hurt or grievous hurt to deter public servant from his/her duty) and section 352 (intentional insult with the intention to provoke) of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS).
Jail officials have submitted a report on the latest incident, and further probe is underway.
Police Reaction
Superintendent of Police, North Goa, Akshat Kaushal reacting to the incident said, “Suchana Seth is presently under trial in a Calangute murder case and is presently lodged in Colvale prison. We got a complaint from Colvale prison that she had assaulted one of the staff who was deployed there. After receiving the complaint, we’ve registered a case against her under Sections 121(1) and 352 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).”
Co-Founder Of Mindful AI Labs
Suchana Seth the co-founder of Mindful AI Labs, an artificial intelligence start-up. According to her LinkedIn profile, Seth 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 start-ups and industry research labs.
Allegations Of Killing Son
Seth allegedly killed her son in an apartment in Goa’s Candolim. There are reports that Suchana Seth had checked in into the Sol Banyan Grande Hotel in Candolim on January 6 2024 and checked out today morning.
Seth asked the hotel staff to book a cab for Karnataka’s Bengaluru. The hotel staff requested the woman to take a flight instead of going by cab, to which the woman denied and insisted that she wanted to go by a cab. The hotel staff then booked a cab for the woman. They grew suspicious and noticed that her child was not with her at the time of her departure from the hotel.
They informed the police, after which the police called the cab driver on his phone and asked him to give the phone to Suchana. Police inquired her about her son, to which she replied that he has went with his friends and also gave an address to the police. The address turned out to be fake. The hotel staff also found blood stains inside the room occupied by Suchana.
The police again called on the phone of the cab driver and asked him to take the cab to a nearest police station. The cab driver took the cab to Chitraguda Police Station where the woman was arrested and the dead body of her son was found inside the bag.
Amid the probe, Seth denied any involvement in the crime and claimed that her son was dead when she woke up from sleep. Currently, officials are yet to conclude the motive behind the murder.
