Suchana Seth, the AI start-up CEO accused of killing her four-year-old child, was ‘confronted’ by her estranged husband PR Venkat Raman at Calangute police station in Goa. Venkat Raman, who recorded his statement at the police station Saturday evening, reportedly asked Seth why she killed their child.
What followed was 15 minutes of “blame game” between the estranged couple, whose divorce process is underway, according to a report by Hindustan Times.
Seth allegedly smothered her son to death in a service apartment in Candolim in north Goa, packed his corpse in a bag and hailed a taxi to go back to Bengaluru but was arrested mid-way on January 8 in Chitradurga in Karnataka.
“When they faced each other, it led to arguments between the two. Venkatraman asked her ‘what have you done to my child? How could you do this to me?’ To which, Suchana replied she hadn’t done anything,” the HT report quoted a police officer as saying.
“He vented his anger and asked her ‘Why did you do this?’ She replied, ‘I did not commit the crime’. There was a brief verbal argument, where both blamed each other,” a police officer said, according to a report by Indian Express.
Earlier, the Mindful AI Lab CEO had given a similar statement to the Goa Police and denied killing her four-year-old son. She told police that when she fell asleep at the service apartment in Goa, her son was alive, but he was dead when she woke up.
Meanwhile, in his statement, Venkat Raman has repeatedly claimed that he last met his son on December 10 and that Suchana had not allowed him to meet their child for the past five Sundays in violation of the court order.
While Raman refused to speak to the media, his lawyer said the former was “numb” with grief.
“He can die for his son but will now have to live without him. My client has no claim for justice for himself or the child, who is no more,” the lawyer told reporters.
He said he did not know what led to the killing, adding that only Seth would be able to say why she committed such an act.
“The trigger for the offence is just a guess. Maybe she did not want the child to meet his father or have an emotional connection,” the lawyer said.
He said a custody battle for the child was underway in a family court in Bengaluru for the past year.
“Initially the court had allowed the father to speak to the child over the phone or through video call. In November, the court allowed the father to visit the child at home,” he said.
“Suchana had insisted the father should meet his son in a child-friendly environment like some cafe. Raman was supposed to meet his son on January 7 in Bengaluru. He went to the house at 10 am and waited till 11 am. He sent a message to Suchana but got no reply,” the lawyer claimed.
Seth and Raman got married in 2010 and filed for divorce after eight years, he added.
Comments
0 comment