Over two months after the Goa Police filed a chargesheet towards a Bengaluru tech agency CEO, Suchana Seth, in reference to the homicide of her four-year-old son, forensic consultants declare to have confirmed that the handwritten word – recovered from inside a trolley bag that contained her son’s physique – was written by her.
In response to police sources, a latest report from the Forensic Sciences Laboratory (FSL) reveals that Suchana’s handwriting specimen matched the handwriting within the word. The word, hooked up to the police chargesheet within the case, was allegedly written in black ink on crumpled and torn items of tissue paper and referred to the custody battle between Suchana and her estranged husband Venkatraman PR.
The word indicated Suchana not desirous to let the kid go to his father.
“The FSL report confirms that the word was written by her. The word is an important piece of proof to determine motive,” mentioned a police officer, requesting anonymity.
Suchana and her son checked into Resort Sol Banyan Grande in North Goa’s Candolim on the evening of January 6. She had the room booked until January 10, however reduce her journey quick, informing the lodge workers on January 7 evening that she wished to check-out as a result of “pressing work” in Bengaluru.
The following day, she was detained from Karnataka’s Chitradurga district whereas allegedly making an attempt to flee in a cab along with her son’s physique stuffed in a trolley bag.
In response to police sources, a latest report of the medical examination performed by medical doctors at The Institute of Psychiatry and Human Behaviour, on the Goa Medical Faculty, had declared Suchana “fit to stand trial”. In March, the Kids’s Court docket had allowed her father’s plea for a re-evaluation of her psychological state and for an additional medical examination to be performed.
This was after police, in an earlier medical examination report filed in February, had mentioned that “serial psychological well being examinations of the accused didn’t reveal any case of psychopathology” and “her judgment was intact and she or he gave rational solutions in her assessments”.
The chargesheet filed in April states that the four-year-old youngster died on account of “shock and respiratory asphyxia” brought on by “strangulation”.
The chargesheet additionally mentioned that, in January 2022, Suchana instructed her husband she wished a divorce and subsequently filed a petition towards him in a courtroom in Bengaluru. She additionally filed a case in a household courtroom in Bengaluru beneath the Guardians and Wards Act and obtained an ex-parte order in August 2022 prohibiting her husband from taking custody of his son from her.
The chargesheet famous that in subsequent proceedings, the courtroom started to reinstate Venkatraman’s entry to his son, “however the accused (Suchana) was not permitting him to satisfy his son giving one or different excuses”.
Azhar Meer, Venkatraman’s advocate, declined to touch upon the event.