Suchana Seth – the Bengaluru-based AI data scientist accused of murdering her four-year-old son at a hotel in north Goa – filed domestic violence charges against PR Venkat Raman, her husband and the child’s father, in August last year, according to court documents accessed by NDTV Wednesday. The father had denied the allegations – made during the couple’s divorce proceedings – in court. The court was scheduled to hear the matter next on January 29.

Ms Seth and her husband – the two are in the final stages of their divorce, cops said – were believed to have been fighting over visitation rights, and the child may have been killed because the mother was upset after a court granted the father visitation every Sunday, a senior Goa cop told news agency

Nidhin Valsan, the North Goa Superintendent of Police, told reporters Ms Seth and her husband, who rushed back from a business trip to Indonesia’s Jakarta. The couple was married in 2010.

Ms Seth, 39, was caught Tuesday while fleeing with the body of her son stuffed into a large bag.

She was arrested in Karnataka’s Chitradurga. This was after staff at the Goa hotel found a bloodstained towel while cleaning her room and alerted the police. The cops contacted the driver of the taxi Ms Seth was taking to Bengaluru and, discreetly, directed him to the nearest police station.