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'Siya, Chetan Used Coded Language in Chats,' Say Police as Probe Continues in Ketan Agarwal Murder Case

Investigators say chats recovered from seized phones used nicknames and emojis, and police sought more custody to decode the messages.

  • On Friday, Pune Rural Police told Judicial Magistrate First Class A M Vibhute that they recovered coded chats containing "nicknames" and "Smileys " from cell phones of accused Siya Goyal and Chetan Chaudhary.
  • Investigators suspect the pair deleted communications before and after allegedly murdering 26-year-old Ketan Agarwal, who was pushed from the Western cliff of Lohagad Fort in Pune district on June 18.
  • While Police initially sought three more days of custody to investigate the coded messages, they ultimately decided not to press for polygraph tests; the court remanded both to 14-day judicial custody.
  • Defense lawyer Vipul Dushing argued that existing custody time was sufficient, successfully opposing further remand for Siya and Chetan as police shift focus to recording statements from eyewitnesses at the fort.
  • Superintendent Sandeep Singh Gill stated that analyzing data from seized phones sent to the Forensic Science Laboratory is crucial to determining the context of coded communication and connecting investigative dots.
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India Today broke the news in India on Friday, July 3, 2026.
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