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A love triangle, a planned trek, and a death that investigators say was no accident. In this episode of Postmortem, we break down the Ketan Agarwal murder case, examining the police investigation, crime scene reconstruction at Lohagad Fort, forensic evidence, deleted chats, CCTV footage, and the alleged conspiracy that turned a relationship into a chilling murder mystery.
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00:14A love story that turned into a murder mystery.
00:19Sia Goyal was engaged to Ketan Agarwal, but pined for Chetan Chaudhary.
00:24A love triangle that ended in three young lives destroyed.
00:28One son killed while a family mourns.
00:32Hello and welcome to our special show Postmortem, where we put the spotlight on crimes that shock us, yet make
00:40us want to know more and more.
00:42And in this episode, we explore the Ketan Agarwal murder case.
00:54Every love story has a beginning, like every murder mystery has an end.
01:00This one, according to investigators, did not begin with a chance meeting or a romantic date.
01:06It began on a cricket field.
01:09Police investigating the Lohogard Fort death case say that the man now accused of conspiring with Sia Goyal to kill
01:18her fiancé, Ketan Agarwal,
01:21first entered her life through someone she trusted the most, her own brother.
01:26Chetan Chaudhary became friends with Sia's brother, Sahil Goyal, sometime in 2024.
01:33The two shared a passion for cricket and often played together.
01:37What started as a friendship on the cricket pitch gradually extended beyond the game.
01:45Through Sahil, Chetan was introduced to Sia Goyal.
01:48Over time, that friendship allegedly blossomed into a romantic relationship.
01:55While police questioned Sahil Goyal for more than 10 hours during the investigation,
02:02one of the key questions was, who knew about Sia and Chetan's relationship and when?
02:09According to police sources, Sahil admitted that he had known about the relationship for several months.
02:18Investigators say he also told them that he repeatedly urged his sister to end the affair
02:24because by then, she was already engaged to Ketan Agarwal.
02:29Sahil allegedly believed his sister had moved on and was ready to be with Ketan.
02:35But it was all a pretense.
02:38According to police, Sia was planning a murder with Chetan.
02:42Murder of Ketan, her fiancé.
03:02Exactly 10 days after Ketan Agarwal lost his life,
03:06Sia returned to the very place where, according to the police investigation,
03:11she and Chetan had allegedly carried out the murder.
03:16The same cliff, the same valley, the same terrifying drop.
03:22But this time, she wasn't there with Ketan.
03:25She was surrounded by police officers, forensic experts and investigators.
03:37At the top of the 340-feet cliff stood one team.
03:42Another waited at the bottom of the gorge.
03:45Every movement was being watched.
03:47Every second was being recorded.
03:50This wasn't just another visit to Lohagor Fort.
03:53It was a crime scene reconstruction.
03:57It was what we can call a dummy trial.
04:01According to investigators, Sia was asked to recreate exactly what happened on the morning of June 18th.
04:09Standing at the same spot, in the same position,
04:13she demonstrated the amount of force she claimed had been used.
04:18Then the investigators signaled and she pushed a life-size dummy off the edge of the cliff.
04:31The dummy rolled violently down the mountainside before disappearing into the gorge.
04:38Now, from cameras positioned below, the fall isn't immediately clear because of the 340-feet depth.
04:45But a closer look reveals the dummy being propelled away from the cliff before tumbling down the slope.
04:54Now, Ketan, of course, had already died 10 days earlier.
05:02This reconstruction wasn't meant to recreate just his death.
05:06It was meant to answer one crucial question.
05:10Did Ketan accidentally slip or was he deliberately pushed?
05:16Forensic experts say the answer lies in physics.
05:20If someone slips on a mountainside, the body generally falls close to the rock face.
05:27But if a person is pushed with force, the body usually lands farther away because of additional momentum.
05:34That is exactly what investigators wanted to verify.
05:39The dummy's final landing point was compared with the location where Ketan's body had actually been recovered.
06:12Before the reconstruction began, investigators questioned Siyah,
06:17in detail.
06:18They wanted to know precisely where she had been standing, how Ketan had been positioned and exactly how much force
06:26had allegedly been used.
06:29Now, based on her statement, forensic experts built a dummy matching Ketan's height, weight and physique.
06:39On the morning of June 28th, Siyah herself led the investigators through the same route she and Ketan had taken
06:47on June 18th.
06:49She identified every stop they had made.
06:52Finally, she pointed to the exact location from where, according to the investigation, Ketan had fallen into the gorge.
07:00The dummy was positioned there, then following her own account, Siyah pushed it with what she claimed was the same
07:09amount of force she had used that day.
07:27The victim was the same amount of force she had made.
07:42Officially, Pune police have not disclosed whether investigators believe Ketan was pushed by Sia, Chetan or by both of them
07:51together.
07:52On 1st of July, police took accused number two, that is Chetan, to the same location and followed the whole
08:00reconstruction process once again.
08:03It's still unclear whose hands were those that pushed Ketan to his death.
08:08Days earlier, Chetan's father, Babulal Chaudhary, had also claimed that during a meeting at the police station, his son told
08:17him it was Sia who had pushed Ketan.
09:03Sia's reconstruction lasted nearly three and a half hours.
09:09Only after investigators had documented every detail did the police escort Sia back down the fort.
09:18Dressed in a white t-shirt, blue jeans and a face mask with a scarf in her hand, she was
09:25led downhill by two women police constables.
09:27Now, the media had been barred from entering the fort during this entire reconstruction.
09:34Journalists waited anxiously outside the entrance gate.
09:38The moment Sia emerged, one questioned the court across the room.
09:43Sia, why did you kill Chetan?
09:50Sia!
09:50Sia!
09:54Sia!
09:55Sia!
09:57Sia!
09:58Sia!
09:59Sia!
09:59Sia!
09:59Sia!
09:59Sia!
09:59Sia!
09:59Sia!
09:59Sia!
10:00Sia!
10:01Sia!
10:02Sia!
10:03Sia!
10:03Sia!
10:03Sia!
10:03Sia!
10:04Sia!
10:06Sia!
10:10Sia!
10:11all alleged motives during custodial interrogation.
10:20Now, investigators claim that after her engagement to Keitan in February,
10:26Sia found it increasingly difficult to accept the relationship.
10:31When both families fixed November 25th as the wedding date,
10:36police sources say her anxiety intensified.
10:39According to investigators, she repeatedly discussed the situation with Chetan.
10:45Police claim that Chetan initially advised her to simply tell her family
10:51that she did not want to marry Keitan.
10:53But investigators say Sia believed that refusing the marriage
10:58would devastate her parents and brother and bring embarrassment to the family.
11:03Police sources further allege that when Sia refused to confront her family,
11:08Chetan suggested that they elope, run away.
11:13Investigators claim Sia rejected that idea as well.
11:17According to police, she allegedly told Chetan
11:20that removing Keitan from the picture would be easier than running away.
11:26If Keitan died, she allegedly believed that the marriage
11:30would automatically be called off,
11:32allowing her to eventually marry Chetan.
11:36Police investigators further claim that Sia wanted about three years before marrying Chetan
11:43and that Keitan's murder was allegedly the price paid to buy that time.
11:54According to Pune police, one Sia allegedly made up her mind that Ketan had to die.
12:00The question was no longer whether to kill him.
12:03The question was how.
12:06How could Keitan's death be made to look like nothing more than a tragic accident?
12:11Investigators claim that in the beginning, Chetan wasn't willing to go that far.
12:18But they allege that over time, that plan changed.
12:23And eventually, Chetan became part of what police now describe
12:27as a carefully planned murder conspiracy.
12:31According to investigators, the first step was research.
12:35Police claim the two began searching Google for different ways a person could die
12:41without immediately arousing suspicion.
12:45They allegedly explored multiple methods, but none seemed perfect.
12:50They wanted a death that looked completely accidental.
12:55Then, according to investigators, they found the perfect location.
12:59On May 31st, Ketan, an avid trekker who loved the outdoors,
13:05took Sia to Lohgarh Fort for the very first time.
13:09Police believe that this visit changed everything.
13:13Investigators allege that as Sia looked over the massive cliffs and the deep gorge below,
13:20she saw more than just a scenic viewpoint.
13:23She saw an opportunity.
13:25Police say it was during this visit that the idea of pushing Ketan into the valley first took shape.
13:35Investigators claim she had already decided that a fall from the fort
13:39would appear to be nothing more than an unfortunate trekking accident.
13:44But before carrying out the alleged plan, police say there was one more step.
13:50Reconnaissance.
13:52According to investigators, during the first week of June,
13:55Sia returned to Lohgarh Fort, but this time with Chetan.
14:05The two allegedly spent hours surveying the fort.
14:10They walked the trails, studied the approach routes,
14:14identified the locations of every CCTV camera.
14:18And finally, investigators claim they selected the exact spot
14:24from where Ketan would later be pushed.
14:27Then on 14th June, Sia and Ketan made one more visit.
14:32This was when Sia tried the snake stunt,
14:35where she allegedly tried to push him,
14:38but failed as Ketan caught some bushes.
14:45On 14th June, Sia went and found that when he left,
14:51the 14th June, 14th, the 14th June,
14:52the 14th day learned that he was shot.
14:53He killed himself.
14:54And he was killed himself.
14:55The one was apart.
14:57And there was a tree on the hill and a tree on the hill.
15:00Then he was killed.
15:00After the 14th June,
15:01he immediately replied,
15:02kia ki sa pa ga sa pa ga sa pa ga ur mehne ter ko bacha liya to uswakt uske
15:08dhen vini
15:09aya ki isne merko dhkha maharata girane ke liye likin abhi saapka bahana karriya
15:20now investigators say that ketan's family claims that after returning from the loger fort on june
15:2614th ketan asked his father whether they had conducted a thorough inquiry about sia before
15:34fixing the marriage ketan told his father that her phone was often busy whenever he called her
15:40and that she frequently mentioned chetan chaudhuri during their conversations ketan expressed
15:47suspicion that sia was having an affair with someone according to ketan's family he felt
15:53that sia was picking fights at every opportunity without any reason however ketan's family had
16:00reassured him that there was probably nothing to worry about sia was just too young just a 20 year old
16:08then came june 18th the day ketan never returned home according to investigation sia accompanied
16:16ketan to loger fort as planned chetan meanwhile traveled separately on a scooter police say this
16:24too was part of the alleged plan by then both of them already knew the layout of the fort they
16:32knew
16:32where were the only three cctv cameras one at the entrance gate another midway between the entrance and
16:41the selfie point where trekkers usually stop to catch their breath and a third where the stone staircase
16:47ends and the selfie point begins according to investigators chetan planned every movement around
16:57those cameras police say he knew the entrance camera would capture his face so he allegedly arrived
17:04wearing a hoodie carrying a backpack wearing a mask cctv footage reportedly shows him entering the fort
17:12dressed exactly that way but investigators claim that before reaching the alleged crime scene
17:18chetan removed the hoodie took a t-shirt out of his backpack and changed his clothes after ketan
17:26allegedly fell into the gorge police say chetan repeated the process but this time in reverse he removed the
17:34t-shirt put the hoodie back on and quietly walked out investigators believe this wardrobe change was no coincidence
17:43according to police it was designed to create confusion if anyone happened to see him near the cliff
17:51they would remember a man in a t-shirt but the cctv cameras at the entrance would show a man
17:58in a hoodie
17:59two different appearances one carefully planned alibi police investigators also claim that the planning
18:08did not stop there they alleged that sia and chetan even rehearsed what they would say if police questioned
18:16them after the incident investigators claim the two discussed possible questions officers might ask and
18:24memorize their answers in advance according to police they also agreed that after june 16th they would
18:33completely stop communicating no phone calls no text messages investigators further allege that both
18:42deleted their chats photographs and other digital records from their mobile phones and then to ensure
18:49nothing could be recovered easily they even emptied their phones recycled bins as investigators began piecing
18:58together the alleged conspiracy pune police called in sia's brother sahil goya followed by her parents
19:06but there was another incident that investigators wanted to understand one that had taken place nearly two
19:13weeks before kathan's death kathan and sia was scheduled to fly to bali indonesia for their pre-wedding shoot
19:22now sia and her brother traveled along with kathan and his sister by cab from pune to mumbai
19:29international airport according to police sia never wanted that trip to happen and investigators alleged
19:37that because she intended to go ahead with her plan against kathan a foreign trip would only delay it so
19:45according to the investigation while the family stopped at a restaurant on the way to the airport sia quietly
19:52removed kathan's passport from his bag without a passport kathan couldn't board the flight the bali trip was cancelled
20:07in ria ali and malam liya siya gaadi it's a lock card amali gaadi it's a lock call
20:13long in the local country for smith like it's the malakama it that it's a dicky
20:17is the only eye of the biggit or the biggit or the biggit or for a scala dicky maddele and
20:22saman kaget
20:22let me go to lakshi daily but the gila nantar mudi momala a pundra aish mintante phone kelly
20:28and I picked up the airport.
20:33When I dropped the airport, I dropped the airport,
20:37and I had a few minutes left in my cell phone,
20:39and I got a bag of it, so I got a bag of it.
20:42I got a bag of it, and I got a bag of it.
20:45I got a bag of it, and I got 5-5-5 meters left.
20:47I got to call the password.
20:50I was telling you, I called the phone,
20:52I'm telling you, I got to call the passport.
20:56I was like, I don't have to give you the passport.
21:01Now, long before June 18th, there had been wedding preparations.
21:06Like many Indian families, both households had consulted astrologers before finalizing
21:13the marriage.
21:14Ketan and Sia's horoscopes were matched.
21:23According to astrologers, the compatibility was supposed to be excellent.
21:28The horoscopes reportedly matched on 27 points, or satais gunn.
21:35The family were told it was an ideal alliance.
21:40Only after that was the engagement confirmed.
22:09But as details of the investigation emerged, many couldn't
22:13help but reflect on the irony.
22:16If the police investigation is to be believed, this tragedy had nothing to do with destiny.
22:23It's a complex story of a girl who decided it was easier to kill a man than saying no
22:30to a marriage she did not want.
22:32About a man whose involvement is still unclear.
22:37Is he just a man in love following a plan?
22:39Or is he more?
22:41Could he be the one who devised this entire plan?
22:46That's all we have for you in Post Mortem today.
22:49It's time for a short break now.
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