Bengaluru CEO fed high dose of cough syrup before smothering son to death

Bengaluru: Investigation has revealed that the accused CEO mother from Bengaluru gave a high dose of cough syrup before strangling her 4-year-old son to death in a Goa service apartment, police sources said on Thursday.

The Goa Police have recovered two empty bottles of a cough syrup from the room where accused Suchana Seth, CEO of a Bengaluru-based Artificial Intelligence startup Company stayed for two nights and committed the crime.

After making the baby gulp down higher dosage of syrup, the accused had smothered him with a pillow. There is no trace of the child struggling before death and it is because the boy was in a state of dizziness, police sources stated.

When the cops had inquired about the cough syrup bottles with the hotel staff, they had told that accused Suchana Seth had claimed that she had cough and got the syrup bottles, police said.

The police are waiting for the post-mortem report in this regard. The doctors had confirmed that the death of the child had taken place due to suffocation. The accused Suchana Seth was taken to the Goa Medical College and Hospital and Institute of Psychiatry and Human Behaviour for medical evaluation.

The police have also issued notice to her former husband Venkataramana to appear before the Goa Police for questioning. Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant reacting to the development had stated that instructions were given to the police to dwell deep into the case.

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