Goa Police
Goa police unlikely to seek extension of Suchana Seth's custody for murder The Goa police is unlikely to seek further custody of Suchana Seth, 39, who was arrested on January 8 on charges of killing her four-year-old son at a resort in north Goa’s Candolim, police officials familiar with the investigation said on Thursday. Seth will be produced before a judge at the end of her police custody on Friday and is likely to be remanded in judicial custody. A police officer said she has been consistently stonewalled investigators on the events leading up to the child’s death and insisted that she woke up to find him dead. “She has offered no further detail of the murder. We have gathered sufficient evidence,” a police officer said on condition of anonymity. Police said the bitter custody battle between Seth and her estranged husband PR Venkatraman was the most likely motive for the murder. A family court in Bangalore had granted her husband visitation rights every Sunday between 10am and ...