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Fiancée and Alleged Lover Charged in Pune Trekker's Death

Police say CCTV images and phone records point to a planned plot and both suspects are remanded while forensic and digital probes continue.

Overview

  • Ketan Vishal Agarwal fell to his death from Lohagad Fort on Thursday, June 18, a case first treated as an accident that police later reclassified as an alleged murder leading to the arrest of his fiancée Siya Goyal and her alleged boyfriend Chetan Chaudhary.
  • Investigators identified a key CCTV clue showing a hooded man trailing the couple on the fort and used image comparisons to link that figure to Chaudhary, a detail police say stood out because of the hot weather that morning.
  • Technical forensics, including call-detail records, phone-location data and social-media images, reportedly show extensive contact between Siya and Chaudhary and form the principal evidence police cite for alleging a premeditated conspiracy.
  • Police say prior suspicious incidents — visits to Lohagad on May 31 and an alleged failed push on June 14 — fit a pattern investigators are testing while both accused give conflicting accounts and remain remanded in custody until June 29.
  • Ketan was a director in a Pune real-estate family and his planned November wedding frames the case; the investigation and remand hearings could prompt further forensic steps, extra questioning of witnesses and possible wider probes if new links emerge.