Overview
- Vishal Agarwal emailed the President’s office this week asking that his son Ketan’s case be moved to a fast‑track court and that those responsible receive the harshest punishment under law, and he warned against the case becoming a forgotten file.
- In the letter he said the family was shattered after Ketan’s death and that Ketan’s grandfather died within 20 days of the killing from grief and shock.
- Pune police allege the June 18 death at Lohagad Fort was a planned murder in which Ketan’s fiancée Siya Goyal and her friend Chetan Chaudhary conspired to push him into a gorge.
- Investigators cite CCTV, mobile data, reconstruction tests using a dummy, gait analysis and seized phones and belongings as the basis for charging the two with murder and criminal conspiracy.
- Both accused are in 14 days of magistrate custody while the probe continues and the family’s appeal to the President is likely to raise public and political pressure for a quicker court timetable rather than bypass normal judicial procedures.