The chief executive of The Mindful AI Lab, an artificial intelligence start-up in Bengaluru, faces charges of murder after her four-year-old son’s lifeless body was discovered in her luggage. Suchana Seth, the CEO, was taken into custody in the Chitradurga district of Karnataka, following a disturbing sequence of events.

Seth, who had checked into a hotel with her son in Goa on Saturday, raised suspicions when the child was noticeably absent upon her checkout on Monday night. Hotel cleaning staff found blood stains in the room, prompting them to alert the police.

Goa police inspector Paresh Naik revealed that Ms. Seth was returning from Goa to Bengaluru by taxi when she was arrested after the discovery of the child’s body in her luggage. The authorities had contacted the taxi driver, instructing him to take her to the nearest police station.

Upon opening her luggage, police found the lifeless body of her four-year-old son. North Goa Superintendent of Police Nidhin Valsan addressed reporters, confirming the heartbreaking discovery. Seth’s husband, currently in Indonesia, has been contacted and requested to return to India.

A local court remanded Seth to six days in police custody,