Love ends in horror: Cops arrest fiancée, boyfriend for plotting Pune businessman’s homicide at Lohagad fort
5 days after Pune businessman Ketan Vishal Agarwal’s demise was registered as an unintentional fall throughout a trek, investigators have arrested his 20-year-old fiancée and her boyfriend for pushing Agarwal down a 400- foot-high gorge on the Lohagad Fort, with the intent to kill him.
Agarwal, 25, was a director in his household agency, Success Group, which is without doubt one of the largest builders of warehouses throughout Maharashtra. He returned to Pune in 2023 after his Grasp’s diploma from the FW Olin Graduate Faculty of Enterprise at Babson School at Wellesley, Massachusetts, to affix the household enterprise. In February this yr he obtained engaged to Siya Goyal, 20, together with his maternal uncle enjoying matchmaker. Goyal too comes from an prosperous enterprise household in Pune. However unknown to the Agarwals, she was in love with Chetan Chaudhary, 22, whose household runs a enterprise in the identical enterprise district as Goyal’s father.
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Agarwal and Goyal had been set to wed in November this yr for which lodges had been booked at Udaipur. On June 18th nevertheless, Sia insisted that Ketan Agarwal take her for a hike to Lohagad Fort as current for her twentieth birthday the next day and that she could be ready for him close to Kiwale Bridge on the Pune-Mumbai Freeway. At 10.45 am her mom known as his household to say that Ketan had slipped down a gorge at Lohagad whereas taking images. “Initially we registered an unintentional demise report, however throughout the probe sure particulars and household statements made us rethink the investigation,” mentioned Pune Rural Superintendent of Police Sandip Singh Gill.
Ketan Agarwal, he mentioned, was a daily trekker at Lohagad and was well-versed with the terrain. The Agarwal household too of their assertion raised sure suspicions about Siya after which the police examined her telephone and checked out different forensic particulars. It rapidly emerged that she and Chetan Chaudhary had been in a relationship for over a yr, and tried in some ways to convey her reluctance to marry Ketan Agarwal.
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Earlier this month Ketan and he or she had been to go to Bali for a pre-wedding photoshoot which was aborted when the couple reached Mumbai airport and located that Ketan’s passport was lacking. Investigations after his demise revealed that Siya had hidden his passport to keep away from the journey. Then once more, 4 days previous to his demise, the couple had gone for a trek to Lohagad the place she pushed Ketan saying she had noticed a snake and was attempting to avoid wasting him. On June 18, Siya as soon as once more insisted that they go for a trek forward of her birthday on June 19. “By means of Name Report Information we managed to determine that Chetan Chaudhary was additionally at Lohagad on the similar time that Ketan and Siya had been there,” mentioned SP Gill. He claimed the 2 accused have confessed to the killing which is paying homage to final yr’s ‘honeymoon killing’ of Indore resident Raja Raghuvanshi within the forests of Meghalaya.
Ketan Agarwal’s father Vishal Agarwal, 46, informed HT that his son had raised issues about Siya’s behaviour, which the household had missed.
“After the engagement in February, Ketan and Siya met continuously and went out collectively. At instances, Ketan expressed issues about Siya, and requested us whether or not we had correctly verified her antecedents. However as her household was associated to us by our prolonged household community, I reassured him that every thing was wonderful,” he mentioned.
Agarwal mentioned the younger couple would usually quarrel over minor problem, and that Siya was at all times on her telephone. Ketan, he mentioned, had additionally talked about Chetan Chaudhary’s identify to him elevating doubts a few attainable relationship with Siya. “We considered delaying the marriage as a result of she was so younger however her mother and father insisted that we go forward with it as they’d not discover a match like my son,” he added.
The 2 accused have been booked for homicide and conspiracy below sections 103 and 61(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), and brought into custody.
