Suchana's husband deposes before cops

PR Venkatraman, the estranged husband of Suchana Seth, the CEO of an artificial intelligence startup who is accused of killing her four-year-old son, on Saturday deposed before the Goa police, saying he last met his son on December 10 and that she had not allowed him to meet the child for the past five Sundays in violation of the court order.

- Gerard de Souza

The estranged couple also came face to face at the Calangute police station and what followed was later described by the police as a "blame game".

"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," a police officer privy to the meeting said.

Their meeting, which took place in the presence of police officers, lasted for around 20 minutes.

Seth the CEO of an AI firm in Bengaluru - allegedly smothered her son with a pillow at a resort in Candolim in north Goa and then stashed his body in the trunk of a taxi she hired to escape from Goa to Bengaluru, before getting arrested en route on January 8.