Chetan Chaudhary Age, Family, Biography

Some Lesser Known Facts About Chetan Chaudhary

• Chetan Chaudhary grew up in Kondhwa, Pune, Maharashtra, India.

• His family runs Dhanashree Traders, a wholesale and retail grocery business, at the Gultekdi Market Yard in Pune.

• During his school days, he started working in his family’s grocery business.

• Later, in his college days, Chetan Chaudhary started his own dry fruit business.

• In June 2026, he made headlines when he was arrested in Ketan Agarwal‘s murder case. Ketan died after falling about 350 feet from Lohagad Fort in Maharashtra.

• He was accused for planning and plotting the murder of Ketan Agarwal with Ketan’s fiancé, Siya Goyal.

• During investigations, it was revealed that Chetan Chaudhary and Siya’s elder brother, Sahil Goyal, used to play cricket together.

• Chetan and Siya initially got to know each other through this connection.
  

  An old picture of Chetan Chaudhary while receiving a prize after a cricket match

• During their cricket matches, Siya often came to watch her brother’s matches, and they first met during this time.

• In 2025, Chetan Chaudhary met Siya again at a Diwali party.

• After that, he and Siya started a business together.

• They were in regular contact with each other through business work.

• According to the police, their business relationship later turned into a romantic relationship.

• Police believed that this relationship was an important part of the motive that they were investigating in the murder case.

• The two stayed in constant contact even after Siya’s family arranged her engagement to a wealthy Pune businessman, Ketan Agarwal, in February 2026.

• Police records showed that between 1 January 2026 and 18 June 2026, Siya Goyal and Chetan Chaudhary called each other 2,004 times and talked for nearly 238 hours.

• Ketan Agarwal worked as a director and Chief Marketing Officer in his family’s real estate company, Success Group in Maharashtra.

• Initially, his death was reported as an accident during a trek on 18 June 2026.

• Police later revealed in the media that the incident was not an accident.

• They claimed that Siya and Chetan planned the murder so that they could remove Ketan from their lives as Ketan was an obstacle in their relationship.

• According to the police, Siya and Chetan’s online records showed that they searched online for the methods to kill a person.

• On the day of murder, Chetan left his mobile phone at his home in Kondhwa so that he could avoid being tracked through his phone.

• He also asked workers at his shop to answer his phone calls so it would appear that he was at his shop.

• On the morning of 18 June 2026, Siya and Chetan met at a café and finalized their plan.
  

  Chetan Chaudhary and Siya Goyal in a still from a CCTV footage while sitting in a cafe

• They discussed different methods to kill Ketan and chose some places on the fort from where they could push him.

• Later that afternoon, Siya took Ketan on a trek to Lohagad Fort, which is about 3,300 feet above sea level.

• Chetan Chaudhary followed them separately.

• During investigations, a CCTV footage from the café showed Siya Goyal and Chetan sitting together and talking.

• The police claimed that later that day, they pushed Ketan from behind into a deep gorge.

• After the incident, Siya told Ketan Agarwal’s family that he had slipped while walking.

• The police started investigating the case on the request of Ketan’s family as they suspected foul play.

• While checking CCTV cameras near the foothills, police investigators saw a man following Siya and Ketan.

• In the temperature of around 33°C, the man was wearing shorts, a headset, and a heavy hoodie with the hood pulled over his head.
  

  The picture of a man with hoodie captured in a CCTV, while Ketan and Siya walking together

• Police said that in the CCTV footage Siya was seen making pre-planned hand signals to the hooded man.

• The police investigators then compared the footage with Chetan’s social media photos and identified the hooded man as Chetan Chaudhary.

• On 23 June 2026, he was arrested by the Local Crime Branch during a raid.

• After some time, Siya Goyal was also arrested.

• They were both then charged under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) with murder under Section 103 and criminal conspiracy under Section 61(2).

• After that, during court trials, a Pune district court sent Chetan Chaudhary to seven days of police custody for questioning and the recreation of the crime scene.

• His lawyer, Ram Sahane, and his family stated in the media that he was innocent. His lawyer stated that the FIR did not clearly describe the individual role of Chetan. Lawyer added that the CCTV footage did not prove the allegations.

• During the police investigations, Siya Goyal and Chetan Chaudhary started accusing each other for the murder.
  

  Chetan Chaudhary’s relative during a media conversation

• The police sources stated that Chetan and Siya first planned to run away and get married, but Siya later changed her mind as she did not want to spoil the reputation of her family.

• Police stated that they discussed several ways to end Siya’s engagement to Ketan before he was killed.

• During questioning, Chetan Chaudhary told police that he wanted to run away with Siya Goyal. He claimed that she was the one who forced him to kill Ketan Agarwal.

• After that, Siya denied Chetan’s allegations and blamed Chetan for the murder. She told investigators that the murder was Chetan’s idea.

• She said that Chetan Chaudhary cried in front of her after an earlier attempt to kill Ketan on 14 June 2026 had failed.