A 5,053-page chargesheet was filed in the Wadgaon Maval court on Saturday in the Ketan Agarwal murder case, officials said.
However, they allegedly abandoned the plan after fearing that the person hired for the attack could later create problems for them or lead police to the conspiracy. Police allege that the accused subsequently decided to kill Agarwal themselves. The accused allegedly believed that Agarwal’s death at the same location could similarly appear as an accidental fall while taking a selfie. Police allege that Goyal attempted to push Agarwal from the fort, but he did not fall. She then allegedly pretended there was a snake in an attempt to make him move towards the edge, but the plan failed.
Pune rural superintendent of police Sandeep Singh Gill said, “We have submitted a 5,053-page chargesheet before the Wadgaon Maval court today. In March 2025, a 21-year-old woman from Navi Sangvi had died after falling from Lohagad near Lonavla in Pune district. On June 4, Goyal allegedly insisted on visiting Lohagad before the couple was scheduled to leave for Bali for a pre-wedding shoot. On June 14, Goyal and Agarwal allegedly visited Lohagad.
Because of a previous death at the fort, police allege that the accused eventually selected Lohagad.
The chargesheet details an alleged conspiracy where the three accused first planned to seriously injure him, explored hiring an outsider to attack him and later decided to kill him themselves after studying murder cases, films and ways of evading police detection, according to a senior police officer. The three initially discussed disabling Agarwal and later contacted several people from outside Maharashtra to explore getting him seriously injured, according to the officer cited above. One of the persons contacted during this stage has since become a witness in the case, the officer said. During the planning, they allegedly watched films based on murders, listened to podcasts about avoiding police detection, and studied the murder of Meghalaya-based Sonam Raghuvanshi, the officer said.
Sonam was held after her husband Raja, an Indore resident, was murdered during the couple’s honeymoon in Meghalaya in May last year. Police allege that the murder was to be carried out before the trip.
