Pune-based businessman Ketan Agarwal's death at Lohagad Fort has taken a dramatic turn after police alleged that his fiancee Siya Goyal and her lover Chetan Chaudhary conspired to kill him.
Agarwal, 25, died after falling into a gorge at the historic fort near Lonavala on June 18. Investigators now claim that Goyal and Chaudhary planned and executed the murder.
Both have been arrested and have confessed. Agarwal belonged to a prominent Pune business family and served as a director at Success Group, a company involved in industrial, commercial and residential real estate development.
He held a Master's degree in Entrepreneurial Leadership from Babson College in Massachusetts and a Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management from Symbiosis International University.
The couple was scheduled to marry in November, with preparations for the wedding already underway.
Police said the case was initially registered as an accidental death after Goyal claimed that he slipped while taking photographs near a cliff edge.
However, the investigation took a turn after Agarwal's family questioned the accident theory, insisting that he was an experienced trekker and unlikely to lose his footing so easily.
