Key facts
- Siya Goyal taken to Pune fort site where murder was allegedly rehearsed
- Police say no direct evidence on who pushed Ketan Agarwal
- Lie-detector test sought for Siya Goyal and alleged lover Chetan
- Locals object to fort being called 'Siya Point' after the case
Pune police took Siya Goyal to a fort site in the city on Tuesday, the location where investigators allege she and her lover Chetan rehearsed the murder of her fiancé Ketan Agarwal by practising how to push him off a cliff. The chilling detail of a rehearsed killing at a heritage site has become central to the prosecution's emerging theory of the case.
Despite the reconstruction visit and the detailed alleged planning, police have acknowledged they have no conclusive physical evidence establishing exactly who pushed Ketan. With direct evidence proving elusive, investigators have formally sought permission to conduct lie-detector tests on both Siya Goyal and Chetan, hoping the polygraph examination will help fill in critical gaps.
Locals near the Pune fort where the rehearsal allegedly took place have also expressed distress, with residents objecting to the site being referred to as 'Siya Point' in the wake of the case — arguing the murder case is disrespecting a historically significant landmark.
The case continues to evolve rapidly. Meghalaya's Supreme Court challenge in a separate honeymoon murder case and the witness-threatening arrests in the Renukaswamy murder case reflect a broader moment of high-profile criminal proceedings playing out across India — but the Siya-Ketan case, with its rehearsed killing angle, remains among the most followed.