Suchana Seth Case: How traffic jam helped cops catch the fleeing Bengaluru CEO | Oneindia
The escape attempt of Suchana Seth, the CEO of Mindful AI Lab, took an unexpected turn when she encountered an accident in Goa's Chorla Ghat. Stuck for four hours due to the mishap, Seth's plans to flee to Bengaluru after allegedly murdering her son faced a significant delay. Fortunately, this pause in her journey provided law enforcement the opportunity to apprehend her before she could dispose of her son's body. The arrest took place in Karnataka's Chitradurga on Monday night, where Seth was found with her son's lifeless body concealed in a bag. A court in Goa subsequently ordered her into police custody for a six-day period starting Tuesday.
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00:00 The escape attempt of Suchana Seth, the CEO of Mindful AI Lab, took an unexpected turn
00:09 when she encountered an accident in Goa's Cholaghat.
00:13 Stuck for four hours due to the mishap, Seth's plans to flee to Bengaluru after allegedly
00:19 killing her son faced a significant delay.
00:22 Fortunately, this pause in her journey provided law enforcement the opportunity to apprehend
00:27 her before she could dispose of her son's body.
00:30 The arrest took place in Karnataka's Chitradurga on Monday night, where Seth was found with
00:34 her son's lifeless body concealed in a bag.
00:37 A court in Goa subsequently ordered her into police custody for a six-day period starting
00:41 Tuesday.
00:42 Seth was apprehended in Karnataka's Chitradurga district as she attempted to escape in a cab
00:47 with her son's lifeless body hidden in a bag.
00:50 Police sources revealed that an unexpected truck mishap at Cholaghat, situated at the
00:55 intersection of the Goa-Karnataka border, proved to be a blessing in disguise.
01:00 The cab, stranded for over four hours from 2 am to 6 am, provided a crucial window for
01:05 law enforcement to intervene and prevent Seth from continuing her journey.
01:09 The journey from Kandolim to Bengaluru takes about 11-12 hours.
01:13 Due to the overturning of a turn at the Cholaghat, the traffic movement was restricted and this
01:18 delayed her trip by over four hours.
01:20 In the meantime, the hotel staff reported that they had found bloodstains and were able
01:25 to track the taxi driver and the accused, said a police officer.
01:29 Rojan D'Souza, the cab driver from North Goa's Anjuna, who drove Seth from Hotel Saul Banyan
01:34 Grande in Kandolim to the police station in Chitradurga, was also instrumental in her
01:39 arrest.
01:40 D'Souza got an urgent call from the hotel at 11 pm on January 7 to take Seth to Bengaluru,
01:45 according to a report by Indian Express.
01:47 "My co-driver and I reached the parking area.
01:50 She said she was travelling alone and told me to put a red trolley bag in the boot.
01:53 The suitcase was unusually heavy, but I did not think much of it," he told Indian Express.
01:58 D'Souza recounted that throughout the journey, Seth remained completely silent, except for
02:03 one instance when she asked if he wanted to drink water.
02:07 Over the ensuing hours, he persisted in driving continuously until he received a call from
02:11 a Kelang-Uttar police inspector around 11 am.
02:14 "The police inspector asked me if the passenger I was ferrying was alone or if a child was
02:18 with her.
02:19 The officer was talking in Konkani and I figured that she could not understand a conversation.
02:24 I told him she was alone.
02:25 He said police had found bloodstains in hotel room and they had suspicion about her.
02:29 Then I passed the phone to speak to her.
02:31 The officer spoke to her for a couple of minutes.
02:33 She mentioned an address.
02:34 Besides that, she didn't react much and did not seem to be in any sort of panic," D'Souza
02:39 said.
02:40 Later, the police contacted D'Souza again after confirming that the information Seth
02:43 provided about her son's location was false.
02:45 They directed him to immediately drive to the nearest police station.
02:49 Here the cab driver's quick thinking came into play.
02:52 He discreetly googled the nearest police station, which showed one at a distance of 150 km.
02:58 Realising it was too far, he informed Seth that he and his co-driver needed to use a
03:01 restroom and stopped the car.
03:04 By the roadside, they found a restaurant where the watchman informed them that M. Mangala
03:08 Police Station in Karnataka's Chitradurga district was just 500 metres away.
03:13 D'Souza then called the Goa Police and kept them on standby while he drove to the police
03:17 station.
03:18 The police officers of both states then coordinated and in the next 10 minutes, the police checked
03:22 the luggage and found the body of her son.
03:24 "I didn't have time to process what was happening and just did what the police asked," she said.
03:29 She did not show any emotion while the police were conducting the check," the driver added.
03:34 The victim's father Venkatraman, who hails from Kerala and is settled in Indonesia, reached
03:38 Hiryur in Chitradurga on Tuesday night and took possession of his son's body after the
03:43 post-mortem.
03:44 The post-mortem revealed that the child was smothered to death.
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