PUNE: The grandfather of Ketan Agarwal, the Pune realtor whose death at Lohagad Fort is being investigated as an alleged murder, has died weeks after the incident, the family has confirmed.Devichand Agarwal died at 9.45pm on Saturday. He was 71.According to the family, he had been unwell since the death of his grandson and suffered a cardiac arrest.Ketan Agarwal died after falling from Lohagad Fort near Pune on June 18. What was initially registered as a case following the fall has since become a murder investigation.Police allege that the prime accused, Siya Goyal, who was engaged to Agarwal, was unwilling to marry at this stage of her life and was under pressure from her family to go ahead with the wedding.A ‘Snapchat message‘A Snapchat message allegedly sent by murder accused Siya to a friend where she said her marriage with Pune-based realtor Ketan Agarwal was not going to happen has surfaced during the investigation. The message was purportedly sent in May, weeks before Agarwal’s alleged murder, said a police official.Goyal (20) and her alleged lover Chetan Chaudhary (22) were arrested last month for allegedly murdering Agarwal (25) by pushing him into a gorge at Lohgad Fort in Pune district on June 15.In the message, Goyal purportedly asked her friend to share a copy of her Aadhaar card for booking tickets to Udaipur where the wedding was scheduled to be held in November, while simultaneously telling her that it would not happen.“Send your Aadhaar card front and back side photo for tickets for the wedding, which is anyway not going to take place, but still do send it,” the message read.Agarwal’s family had started making travel bookings for relatives and friends for the wedding and had sought the names and Aadhaar details of guests from Goyal’s family, the official said.“We will question this friend to ascertain whether she had any prior knowledge about the conspiracy to eliminate Ketan,” the officer said.Police are verifying the authenticity of the Snapchat message, he added.
