PANAJI: Calangute police informed a Goa children’s court on Tuesday that Suchana Seth, a Bengaluru-based data scientist who allegedly killed her four-year-old son in Goa, does not suffer from any stress-related ailments.
“She was examined by a panel of doctors, and questions posed to her were answered in a sane manner. In no context was any type of pressure of stress-related ailment noticed,” stated the opinion of Institute of Psychiatry and Human Behaviour (IPHB) doctors.
Calangute PI Paresh Naik said the medical report related to her mental health condition has been submitted to court.
Suchana’s father, Joy Gopal Seth, had approached the children’s court seeking a direction to Goa police to get her examined by a civil surgeon or medical board to ascertain her mental condition.
Joy Seth said it was beyond the stretch of imagination that a mother, in a proper frame of mind, would commit such an act against her own offspring. “I further add and say that Suchana is unable to make her defence or has been incapable of making her defence due to the mental illness she suffers from; she is in denial of her own illness,” he had said.
Responding to the application, Calangute police told court that they have already moved the medical superintendent, IPHB, requesting Suchana’s medical examination report.
Suchana is in judicial custody. Calangute police said they would file a chargesheet once the investigation had been completed.
Suchana is accused of murdering her son at a Candolim service apartment on January 7. After allegedly killing her son, Suchana hired a taxi and checked out of Hotel Sol Banyan Grande at Candolim, leaving for Bengaluru with the boy’s body stuffed in a bag. She had checked in with her son on January 6.
Subsequently, the housekeeping staff found bloodstains in the room and alerted police.
The discovery of the child’s murder would have been delayed had Suchana not been stuck in a four-hour traffic jam at Chorla Ghat on her way to Bengaluru, police said.
A six-line note scribbled by Suchana on a crumpled tissue found inside the suitcase bearing the body of her son alludes to a bitter custody battle with her husband, police said.
“She was examined by a panel of doctors, and questions posed to her were answered in a sane manner. In no context was any type of pressure of stress-related ailment noticed,” stated the opinion of Institute of Psychiatry and Human Behaviour (IPHB) doctors.
Calangute PI Paresh Naik said the medical report related to her mental health condition has been submitted to court.
Suchana’s father, Joy Gopal Seth, had approached the children’s court seeking a direction to Goa police to get her examined by a civil surgeon or medical board to ascertain her mental condition.
Joy Seth said it was beyond the stretch of imagination that a mother, in a proper frame of mind, would commit such an act against her own offspring. “I further add and say that Suchana is unable to make her defence or has been incapable of making her defence due to the mental illness she suffers from; she is in denial of her own illness,” he had said.
Responding to the application, Calangute police told court that they have already moved the medical superintendent, IPHB, requesting Suchana’s medical examination report.
Suchana is in judicial custody. Calangute police said they would file a chargesheet once the investigation had been completed.
Suchana is accused of murdering her son at a Candolim service apartment on January 7. After allegedly killing her son, Suchana hired a taxi and checked out of Hotel Sol Banyan Grande at Candolim, leaving for Bengaluru with the boy’s body stuffed in a bag. She had checked in with her son on January 6.
Subsequently, the housekeeping staff found bloodstains in the room and alerted police.
The discovery of the child’s murder would have been delayed had Suchana not been stuck in a four-hour traffic jam at Chorla Ghat on her way to Bengaluru, police said.
A six-line note scribbled by Suchana on a crumpled tissue found inside the suitcase bearing the body of her son alludes to a bitter custody battle with her husband, police said.
