{"id":29308,"date":"2026-07-01T15:10:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T09:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/ketan-agarwal-murder-siya-goyal-had-victims-phone-after-lohagad-cliff-fall-cops-suspect-evidence-tampering-pune-news\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T15:10:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T09:40:47","slug":"ketan-agarwal-murder-siya-goyal-had-victims-phone-after-lohagad-cliff-fall-cops-suspect-evidence-tampering-pune-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/ketan-agarwal-murder-siya-goyal-had-victims-phone-after-lohagad-cliff-fall-cops-suspect-evidence-tampering-pune-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Ketan Agarwal murder: Siya Goyal had victim&#8217;s phone after Lohagad cliff fall; cops suspect &#8216;evidence tampering&#8217; | Pune News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-132111382,imgsize-978367,width-400,height-225,resizemode-75\/investigators-are-examining-agarwals-mobile-phone-which-was-in-goyals-possession-after-the-incident.jpg\" alt=\"Ketan Agarwal murder: Siya Goyal had victim's phone after Lohagad cliff fall; cops suspect 'evidence tampering'\" title=\"Investigators are examining Agarwal's mobile phone, which was in Goyal's possession after the incident\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"Investigators are examining Agarwal's mobile phone, which was in Goyal's possession after the incident\">Investigators are examining Agarwal&#8217;s mobile phone, which was in Goyal&#8217;s possession after the incident<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>PUNE: The investigation into Pune realtor Ketan Agarwal&#8217;s murder has turned its focus to his mobile phone, with police probing whether crucial evidence was deleted or tampered with after his mobile phone remained in the possession of his fianc\u00e9e, Siya Goyal, for some time following his death.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/>According to police, the investigation has revealed that Agarwal&#8217;s mobile phone came into Goyal&#8217;s possession after he was allegedly pushed off the cliff.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>&#8220;She later handed over the phone to his family. We are investigating whether any crucial evidence was deleted or tampered with while the phone was in her possession,&#8221; police said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"7\"\/>Agarwal (25) was allegedly pushed off a cliff at Lohagad Fort in Pune district on June 18 by Goyal (20) and her alleged lover, Chetan Chaudhary (22).<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"11\"\/>The couple were engaged and were scheduled to marry in November.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"13\"\/>Both accused were arrested and are currently in police custody till July 3.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"15\"\/>While seeking an extension of their custody earlier this week, the prosecution informed the court that investigators wanted to determine whether Goyal had deleted or destroyed any evidence from Agarwal&#8217;s phone during the period it remained with her.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"17\"\/>As part of the investigation, Pune Rural Police on Wednesday took Chaudhary to Lohagad Fort and recreated the sequence of events surrounding the alleged murder.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"20\"\/>The police had conducted a similar crime scene reconstruction with Goyal on Sunday, during which a dummy was pushed off the cliff in her presence.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"22\"\/>Investigators had earlier told the court that they were also probing several other aspects of the case, including the alleged conspiracy, digital evidence and the exact sequence of events leading to Agarwal&#8217;s death.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"24\"\/>Police have also said that in his complaint, Agarwal&#8217;s father, Vishal Agarwal, alleged that his son had repeatedly expressed concern over Goyal&#8217;s closeness to Chaudhary and that she frequently mentioned him during their conversations.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"26\"\/>Investigators have further claimed that Goyal had earlier sabotaged the couple&#8217;s planned pre-wedding trip to Bali, Indonesia.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"28\"\/>Further investigation in the case is underway.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"30\"\/>(With PTI inputs)<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/pune\/ketan-agarwal-murder-siya-goyal-had-victims-phone-after-lohagad-cliff-fall-cops-suspect-evidence-tampering\/articleshow\/132111045.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investigators are examining Agarwal&#8217;s mobile phone, which was in Goyal&#8217;s possession after the incident PUNE: The investigation into Pune realtor Ketan Agarwal&#8217;s murder has turned its focus to his mobile phone, with police probing whether crucial evidence was deleted or tampered with after his mobile phone remained in the possession of his fianc\u00e9e, Siya Goyal, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}