Panaji: The estranged husband of Suchana Seth, the AI start-up CEO accused of killing her four-year-old child, on Saturday appeared before Calangute police in Goa as part of the probe, an official said.

Seth allegedly smothered her son to death in a service apartment in Candolim in north Goa, packed his corpse in a bag, and hailed a taxi to go back to Bengaluru but was arrested mid-way on January 8 in Chitradurga in Karnataka, as per police.

"Venkat Raman, the accused's husband, arrived here from Bengaluru in the afternoon and reached Calangute police station. We will be recording his statement in the case as part of the probe," the official said.

Raman hails from Kerala but is now based in Indonesia. He was in Jakarta when the murder took place. He reached Hiriyur in Chitradurga district on Tuesday night and took possession of his son's body after the post-mortem. The body was cremated.

According to police, as per the initial investigations, the woman smothered her son to death before trying to commit suicide by slashing her wrist. PTI