Goa murder case: 4-year-old boy was smothered to death, says doctor
Chitradurga (PTI): The boy was smothered to death, said a senior doctor here on Tuesday citing the postmortem report of the four-year-old who was allegedly killed by his mother at a service apartment in Goa.
Suchana Seth, the chief executive officer (CEO) of an artificial intelligence start-up, was apprehended in Chitradurga in Karnataka on Monday night while she was on her way from Goa to Bengaluru, and the boy's body was found in a suitcase. She was arrested on the directions of the Goa Police.
"He (the child) was strangled to death or what we call smothering. Either a cloth or a pillow was used. The child died due to strangulation. It doesn't look like the child was strangulated using hands. It looks like a pillow or some other material was used. The Rigor mortis had resolved in the child," Hiriyur Taluk Hospital's administrative officer Dr Kumar Naik told reporters.
"Usually in India, rigor mortis resolves after 36 hours but in this child's case, there was no Rigor mortis. So, it has been more than 36 hours since his death," he said. Naik said there was no blood loss or struggle marks on the body.
"We cannot say the exact time but it has been 36 hours since his death," Naik said.
Seth is the CEO of 'The Mindful AI Lab', and according to her LinkedIn profile, she is an AI ethics expert and data scientist with over 12 years of experience in mentoring data science teams, and scaling machine learning solutions at startups and industry research labs.
"She is on the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics List. She has been a Mozilla Fellow at Data & Society, a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Centre at Harvard University, and a research fellow at the Raman Research Institute. She also holds patents in natural language processing," the profile read. Seth is an expert in 'AI Ethics Advisory & Audits' and 'Responsible AI Strategy'.
A postgraduate from the University of Calcutta, and a research fellow from Raman Research Institute (RRI) and spent two years at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.
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Rapper Badshah flouts traffic rules in Gurugram, police issue Rs 15,000 challan
Gurugram, Dec 17: Gurugram Traffic Police has issued a challan of Rs 15,000 after a Mahindra Thar carrying popular rapper Badshah was found driving on the wrong side of the road, officials said on Tuesday.
The incident took place on the evening of December 15 when Badshah went to the Airia Mall on Sohana Road to make a special appearance in a concert by Punjabi singer Karan Aujla, police said.
The SUV in which the singer was present is registered in the name of Deepender Malik, a resident of Panipat.
Due to long traffic, the SUV, along with two other cars part of Badshah's convoy, drove on the wrong side of the road, catching the attention of some passersby who filmed the act.
As a video of the incident went viral on social media, the traffic police took note of it and issued a challan of Rs 15,000 on Monday.
"A challan has been issued and action has been taken for driving on the wrong side, rash driving, and playing loud music in the vehicle," a traffic inspector said.
The Gurugram Traffic Police later issued an official statement warning people that "if you drive on the wrong side, you will have to pay a heavy fine".
As per the statement, on December 15, a video of three cars driving on the wrong side to reach the Airia Mall was circulated widely on social media.
"During investigation, three vehicles were found travelling on the wrong side of the road. Rapper Badshah was seen getting down from one of the cars, which has been detected and challaned as per the rules under the Motor Vehicles Act. A search is on to detect the other two cars, and action will be taken as per the rules," Deputy Commissioner of Police (Traffic), Virender Vij, said.
