A key part of the alleged planning involved the death of Mansi Govindpurkar (R), a 21-year-old woman from Sangvi who went missing on March 18, 2025
PUNE: The plan to kill realtor Ketan Agarwal at Lohagad Fort in Pune district allegedly took shape after his fiancé Siya Goyal and her alleged lover Chetan Chaudhary studied online reports about the death of a young woman at the same location in 2025, according to the chargesheet filed by Pune Rural police before the Wadgaon Maval court. Police allege that she subsequently conspired with Chaudhary and Hange to eliminate Agarwal and make his death appear to be an accident.
The Mansi Govindpurkar case
Agarwal, 26, died on June 18. Police had initially examined whether she had fallen from the fort or died due to another cause.
Among the searches cited in the chargesheet were terms such as “Death Cap Mushroom India”, “Women Kills Family by Mushroom”, “Easy way to kill someone”, “Sonam Case”, “Lohagad Fort”, “How to format iPhone – No history on calls”, “How to Delete Google Account”, “Trekking Incident” and “How not to get manipulated”. The death was initially believed to be an accidental fall from Lohagad Fort, but the subsequent investigation found that he had allegedly been pushed. Police have claimed that the accused also searched for information about the Meghalaya honeymoon murder of Raja Raghuvanshi, along with ways to delete phone and online data. A search operation involving police and the Shivdurg rescue team found her body two days later in bushes near the foothills of Lohagad, close to the Navgraha temple area. Later reports attributed her death to suicide, allegedly linked to distress over health problems and her inability to appear for her LLB third-year examination.