Pune, June 26 (IANS) The investigation into the alleged murder of 26-year-old Ketan Agarwal at Pune’s Lohagad Fort gathered significant momentum on Friday as Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis announced a fast-track trial and appointed senior advocate and Rajya Sabha member Ujjwal Nikam as the special public prosecutor in the case. As police prepared to recreate the crime scene and intensified their probe by questioning key witnesses, both the victim’s and the prime accused’s families …
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Pune, June 26 (IANS) Ujjwal Nikam, Rajya Sabha MP and the then government prosecutor who won stringent punishments for the convicts in the 2008 Mumbai attack and 1993 Bombay bombings, will be the special public prosecutor in the Ketan Agarwal murder, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said on Friday. The announcement was made after Ketan’s father, Vishal Agarwal, met the CM in Pune and sought justice for his son, an official statement from the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) said.Fadnavi…
Pune, June 26 (IANS) In the wake of the alleged murder of Ketan Agarwal at Pune’s Lohagad Fort, purportedly by his fiancee Siya Goyal and her alleged lover, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday underlined the need to introspect why educated youth are increasingly developing a “vengeful and distorted mindset”.Interacting with reporters during his visit to the city, Fadnavis said: “This is an extremely shocking and incomprehensible incident. As a society, we need to introspect on…
Pune, June 26 (IANS) In the Ketan Agarwal murder case, the Pune Rural Police are preparing to recreate the crime scene at Lohagad Fort as part of their investigation. The exercise is expected to help investigators reconstruct the sequence of events leading to Ketan’s death and verify the version of events put forward by the accused. According to police sources, elaborate preparations have been made for the crime scene recreation, although the exact date and time have been kept confidential for s…
Pune/New Delhi, June 26 (IANS) The investigation into the alleged murder of Pune businessman’s son Ketan Agarwal at Lohagad Fort continues to deepen, with police saying they are building a complete chain of evidence beyond statements made before law enforcement officials.Superintendent of Police, Pune Rural, Sandeep Gill, said the probe team is working to ensure that all findings are legally sustainable and independently corroborated.Sandeep Gill said, “A confession made before the police is…
New Delhi, June 26 (IANS) As the investigation into the alleged murder of Ketan Agarwal gathers pace, the parents of the prime accused, Siya Goyal, have expressed shock over the incident, extended condolences to the victim’s family and said that anyone found guilty in the case, including their daughter, should face the strictest punishment. Speaking on the Ketan Agarwal murder case, Siya’s father, Praveen Goyal, expressed grief over the death of the young man and said the loss was unimaginab…
Pune, June 25 (IANS) After Ketan Agarwal fell to his death from Lohagad Fort near Pune, which was later revealed to be an alleged murder, a security guard at the historic place revealed that the victim’s fiancee and an accused in the case, Siya Goyal, was shouting for help and said that “someone fell off the fort”.Along with Siya, her alleged lover Chetan Chaudhary is also an accused in the case. Both of them are currently in police custody.The security guard told NDTV that he responded to screa…
Pune, June 25 (IANS) The probe into Pune’s Lohagad Fort incident, where the death of Pune businessman’s son Ketan Agarwal, which was initially passed off as an accident, later turned out to be a cold-blooded murder, is unearthing murkier details each passing day, and more secrets related to his fiancée Siya Goyal are tumbling out of the closet.In the latest revelations, Goyal and her lover Chetan Babulal Chaudhary are understood to have met to plan in detail how to kill Agarwal during a vac…
Pune, June 25 (IANS) Siya Goyal and Chetan Chaudhary, who have been accused of the alleged murder of the former’s financee Ketan Agarwal, were questioned together after being made to sit facing each other, officials said.According to NDTV, the two accused who have been sent to seven-day police custody were questioned until late last night.What initially came across as an accidental death was later reported to be an alleged murder case, reportedly planned by Goyal and her alleged lover, Chaudhary…
Pune, June 24 (IANS) After the alleged murder of Ketan Agarwal at Lohagad Fort near Pune, his father Vishal Agarwal asserted that he has complete faith in the judiciary and that the guilty will be punished.What initially came across as accidental death, was later reported to be an alleged murder case reportedly planned by Ketan Agarwal’s fiancee, Siya Goyal, and her alleged lover, Chetan Chaudhary.Speaking to IANS, Vishal Agarwal said: “I have complete faith in justice system… whoever is invol…