Pune Woman, Lover Allegedly Pushed Fiancé Into Gorge After Dropping Earlier Plan

When romance meets cold-blooded betrayal, the human tragedy often explodes the quiet facade of ordinary lives to reveal a dark undercurrent of deception. A similar scary story was recently told in the scenic hills around Pune, when a lovers’ escape to the historic Lohagad Fort became a cold-blooded murder plan. At the heart of this macabre probe are 20-year-old Siya Goyal and her lover Chetan Chaudhary, 22, who allegedly plotted to snuff out Siya’s 26-year-old fiancé Ketan Agarwal by shoving him into a deep mountain gorge.

A Romantic Façade Broken by Conspiracy

It all started to go wrong when a pre-wedding trip turned into a deadly trap. Siya Goyal and Ketan Agarwal were officially engaged and went to the hilly terrains of Lohagad Fort with Chetan Chaudhary, who was smartly introduced to the fiancé as a common acquaintance or friend. Those investigating the timeline of the fateful day revealed the trio had spent hours navigating the ancient stone pathways and steep fortifications. But under the surface of the casual chatter and the sightseeing was a sinister, premeditated blueprint for murder.

Siya and Chetan had originally thought of a much more complicated plan, according to disclosures made by the police. Investigators found digital trails and communications indicating that the couple had initially planned to physically hurt Ketan in a way that might be seen as an accident or a fight gone wrong, possibly intending to disable him or drive him off for good. But as they scouted out the dangerous cliffs and uneven walls of the castle, they knew that a frontal assault was full of danger, too many unknowns and too many witnesses in the open air of a tourist trap.

The Fatal Fall into the Gorge

They allegedly ditched their initial, riskier blueprints for a direct confrontation and switched to a far more ruthless and opportunistic method. Finally, on June 18, as the group reached a particularly vulnerable, unguarded ledge overlooking a steep, mist-shrouded gorge, the trap was sprung. Investigators say Ketan Agarwal was pushed deliberately over the cliff, falling into the deep ravine below.

What makes the conspiracy particularly chilling is the deliberate aftermath. After the fatal push, the suspects sought to create a story of a tragic accident, hoping the harsh wilderness of the Sahyadri mountains would consume the truth and hide their role in the incident. They figured that falling from that height in a remote area would be a tragic misstep easily written off as the accident of an adventurous tourist who lost his footing on slippery stones.

Untangling the web of deceit

But the carefully constructed alibi began to break under the weight of police scrutiny. The local authorities, responding to the emergency and initial reports, soon began to suspect inconsistencies in the statements of the surviving companions. Discrepancies as to the exact sequence of events on the fort, combined with technical surveillance and the recovery of crucial digital evidence mapping out the secret relationship between Siya and Chetan, blew wide holes in their defensive narrative.

Interrogations revealed the illicit affair and the cold conspiracy to do away with an inconvenient fiancé. The arrest of Siya Goyal and Chetan Chaudhary sent shockwaves through their respective communities, turning an everyday investigation into a stark cautionary tale about the destructive extremes of secret double lives. To the bereaved family of Ketan Agarwal,