4 min readPuneJun 26, 2026 04:08 AM IST
First published on: Jun 25, 2026 at 02:01 PM IST
Investigating the murder of 25-year-old Ketan Agarwal, Pune Rural police said his fiancee Siya Goyal (20) and her lover Chetan Chaudhary (22) — accused of murdering him by pushing him off a cliff from Lohagad fort — attempted to put the onus of the conspiracy on each other during their interrogation.
While Chetan claimed he wanted to elope and the plan to murder was Siya’s, she maintained that it was Chetan’s plan and he even cried after they could not eliminate him during their prior visit to the fort on June 14. The probe by Pune rural police unearthed a murder conspiracy, allegedly plotted by Siya and Chetan, who were in a relationship since October 2025. Ketan and Siya were engaged on February 19 and were slated to get married later this year in a destination wedding in Rajasthan, for which a palace had been booked and two special flights were chartered to ferry guests and families. Siya did not want to get married to Ketan, the police have said.
Siya and Chetan were arrested on June 23 as cops unravelled the conspiracy. The two were remanded to police custody till June 29. Their separate interrogations by a team from Pune Rural police was underway. The probe revealed that Siya had earlier sabotaged their plan for a pre-wedding shoot in Bali by stealing Ketan’s passport and had taken him to Lohagad fort on two occasions — on May 31 and June 14 — before she and Chetan murdered him on June 18 by pushing him off the Western cliff of the fort. Police said Siya had been insisting Ketan to go to Lohagad on June 4 too, but Ketan’s mother did not allow it.
“Investigation teams are currently interrogating Siya and Chetan separately. They are trying to put the onus of the conspiracy on each other, which clearly seems to be their defence strategy. We have chain of evidence that suggests that they were both in on the conspiracy to eliminate Ketan. Chetan has claimed that he wanted to elope and that it was Siya who wanted to kill Ketan. Siya on the other hand has claimed it was Chetan who wanted to kill Ketan. Siya has said that Chetan cried in front of her after the plane could not be executed on June 14.” said an officer who is part of the probe.
Siya and Ketan were engaged on February 19
An affair, and a hasty wedding plan
“Our probe suggests that Siya and Chetan have been in a relationship since October last year after they connected during a Diwali celebration. Chetan used multiple phone numbers. Analysis of call detail records between Siya and Chetan shows they exchanged over 4,400 calls in the last one year.” another officer.
Ketan had returned after completing his master’s degree at Boston in the US. Probe suggests that Ketan’s family had travelled to Gulbarga in Karnataka for a wedding on February 11 this year. It was at this wedding that he and his family met Siya, as her family too was attending. Siya’s family and Ketan’s family are distantly related through their extended families and have known each other since the 1990s. On February 12 and 13, the two families held meetings to discuss the match, and on February 19, Ketan and Siya got engaged at a hotel in Pune.
Police said that Siya is pursuing a commerce degree at a college in Pune and has recently started her bakery business. Chetan is pursuing a BBA course in Pune. Siya’s family has trading businesses of spices and dry fruits in Market Yard, a trading hub of Pune, while Chetan family has a grocery trading business in the same area.
Siya Goyal was engaged to Ketan (left), she and her boyfriend Chetan have been arrested 
Siya and Ketan were engaged on February 19
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