The chief executive of an AI start-up has been arrested after her four-year-old son’s body was found in her luggage, police have said.
Suchana Seth, who runs The Mindful AI Lab in India’s tech hub of Bengaluru, was detained on suspicion of murder in the Chitradurga district of the southwestern state of Karnataka.
Police say she was returning from the neighbouring state of Goa by taxi and arrested after the body was found in her luggage.
Ms Seth could not be reached for comment as she was in custody and police said they did not know if she had a lawyer as of yet. Staff at her company could not be reached for comment.
She had checked into a hotel with her son in Goa on Saturday, but the boy was not with her when she checked out on Monday night, Goa police inspector Paresh Naik said.
He added that hotel cleaning staff found blood stains in the room after she checked out and informed the police.
Police then contacted the taxi driver by phone and asked him to take Ms Seth to the nearest police station, he said.
When her luggage was opened, the child’s dead body was found, North Goa Superintendent of Police Nidhin Valsan told reporters.
He said Goa police brought Ms Seth back to the state, adding that her husband was in Indonesia and had been asked to come to India.
Reuters reported it was unable to contact Seth’s husband or anyone in her family for comment.
A local court remanded her to six days in police custody, according to the ANI news agency.