A magistrate court near Pune today extended the police custody of Siya Goyal and her alleged boyfriend Chetan Chaudhary till July 3 in connection with the murder of Goyal's fiancee and Pune based realtor Ketan Agarwal..The judicial magistrate at Wadgaon Mawal near Pune passed the order on June 29 after the local police produced Goyal and Chaudhary seeking extension of their custody. .The prosecution cited 18 grounds in support of its plea seeking extension of custody. Advocates Vipul Dushing, appearing for Goyal, and Ram Shahane, appearing for Chaudhary, opposed the application, arguing that the grounds for investigation were already known to the police. They argued that the seven days of custody already granted was sufficient for the purpose. However, considering the gravity of the case and the severity of the alleged offence, the court granted an extension till July 3 to allow for a fair investigation..Agarwal, a director at his family's firm Success Group, was killed at Lohagad Fort near Maharashtra's Lonavala. The incident was initially registered as an accidental death at the Lonavala Rural Police Station.On a complaint by the family, police initiated a deeper inquiry and examined call records, mobile location data, and CCTV footage from the fort. The footage showed a man in a hoodie and face mask in the June heat, later identified as Goyal’s associate Chaudhary, near the fort’s ticket counter, covertly following the couple during the trek..Five days after Agarwal's death, police arrested Goyal and Chaudhary on June 23, invoking Section 103 (murder) and Section 61 (criminal conspiracy) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. They were remanded to seven-day police custody by the Wadgaon Mawal court on June 23, custody that was set to expire on June 29..As per the police, the killing was premeditated. Goyal did not want to get married to Agarwal but did not want to call off the wedding either as it could bring disrepute to the family. Hence, she plotted with Chaudhary to get kill Goyal.The investigators also alleged that the accused had made an earlier alleged attempt on Agarwal's life on June 14, which reportedly failed. An examination of their mobile phones revealed searches for methods to make a murder appear accidental and for the fort's precise death point. . [Read Live Coverage]
