Indian authorities have arrested the CEO of an Indian AI ethics and auditing startup for the alleged murder of her four-year-old son.
Suhana Seth, founder of the Mindful AI Lab in India’s tech hub Bengaluru, was arrested Monday evening in the state of Karnataka while returning by taxi from the neighboring state of Goa.
When police searched Seth’s belongings, they found his son’s body in his luggage, police said Tuesday.
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Seth had checked into a hotel with her son in Goa on Saturday, but the boy was not with her when she left on Monday evening, Goa police inspector Paresh Naik said.
The hotel’s cleaning staff found blood stains in the room after he checked out and informed the police, Naik added.
Police then contacted Suchana Seth through the taxi driver she was traveling with, he said. When asked where his son was, Seth informed authorities that he was staying with a friend.
Officials told media that the address she provided for her son turned out to be fake, after which the cops contacted the taxi driver again and asked him to take Seth to the nearest police station. close.
“When his luggage was opened, the dead body of the child was found,” North Goa Police Commissioner Nidhin Valsan told reporters.
Goa police brought Seth back to the state, Valsan said, adding that her husband was in Indonesia and had been asked to come to India.
Seth’s husband returned to India on Wednesday and performed the last rites for the boy in Bangalore.
Indian media reported On Wednesday, the child’s autopsy revealed that he had been suffocated. Seth had also attempted suicide at the hotel, according to media reports.
The Mindful AI Lab webpage describes Seth as an expert in AI ethics, data scientist and physicist. He also noted that Seth had been a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University.
In 2020, she was also named one of the “100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics”. by an American non-profit organization.
- Reuters, with additional contributions from Vishakha Saxena
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