Bengaluru CEO planned son’s murder, empty cough syrup bottles found in her room, says police

The Goa police have found two empty bottles of cough syrup in a room where the CEO of a start-up allegedly killed her four-year-old son, indicating she might have given a heavy dose of the medicine to him and that it was pre-planned murder, an official said on January 10.

The Goa Police have found two empty bottles of cough syrup in a room where the CEO of a start-up allegedly killed her four-year-old son, indicating she might have given a heavy dose of the medicine to him and that it was pre-planned murder, an official said on January 10.

The four-year-old was cremated in Bengaluru on Wednesday. The child’s father Venkat Raman performed the last rites.

He had brought his son’s body from Chitradurga on Wednesday to an apartment in Bengaluru where the initial rituals took place. Later the child’s body was taken to the Harishchandra Ghat at Rajaji Nagar where Mr. Raman performed the last rites.

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The postmortem has revealed the child was smothered to death either with a cloth or a pillow, as per officials.

The accused woman, Suchana Seth, allegedly killed her son in the apartment at Candolim in Goa and stuffed the body in a bag before taking it to neighbouring Karnataka in a taxi, police said.

She was arrested from Chitradurga in Karnataka on Monday night and brought to Goa on Tuesday.