‘My Heart Found Its Home’: Inside Siya Goyal’s ‘Picture Perfect’ Love Story On Social Media

Last Updated:June 24, 2026, 8:09 PM IST

Siya Goyal documented her then “fairytale love story” with Ketan Agarwal through several posts on social media

Siya Goyal with Ketan Agarwal. (PTI/X/ShoneeKapoor)

In an Instagram post that has now gone viral, Siya Goyal, 20, who has been arrested alongside her alleged lover, Chetan Chaudhary22, in connection with the murder of her fiancé, Ketan Vishal Agarwal, 26, a prominent Pune-based real estate director, had written: ‘My heart found its home’.

This was one of the several posts through which Siya documented her then “fairytale love story” on social media.

As the now-cautionary tale unravels, a look at her posts and why everything you see on social media should not be believed.

The social media facade

The couple announced their engagement in February 2026 and were planning a grand ₹17-crore wedding scheduled for November in a Rajasthan palace. For months, Siya heavily documented their seemingly perfect relationship on Instagram:

March Post: She shared a photo of a candle-lit cake, tagging Ketan, with the caption, “Cheers to one month since my heart found its home.”

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May Posts: She shared videos of Ketan giving her flowers, captioned, “He took ‘pasand hai tumhe’ (I like you) very seriously.” He also shared clips of them dancing and counting down to her birthday, according to NDTV and other reports.

Post-Murder Story: Hours after the killing, she posted a dramatic birthday message mourning him — “Left me on my birthday” — to frame the death as an accident.

The murder plot at Lohagad Fort

On June 18, 2026, Ketan died after plunging 400 feet into a deep gorge at Lohagad Fort near Pune during what was supposed to be a birthday trek. Siya initially told the police and family that Ketan had accidentally slipped and fallen while posing for photographs.

However, police investigations revealed that Siya was in a secret relationship with Chetan, whom she met at a business event in 2025. Viewing Ketan as an obstacle to their relationship, the duo allegedly conspired to execute the murder.

Investigators allege that weeks prior, Siya hid Ketan’s passport to sabotage a pre-wedding photoshoot trip to Bali. On June 14, she allegedly tried to push him at the same fort, but he caught a cliffside bush; she covered her tracks by fabricating a snake sighting.

On June 18, Siya met Chetan at a cafe hours before the trek to finalize the plan. They lured Ketan to the cliffside, where he was pushed to his death.

How the crime was unearthed

The Lonavala Rural Police grew highly suspicious due to two major red flags.

Ketan’s family and the police noticed that Siya appeared completely stone-faced and unemotional immediately following her fiancé’s death.

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CCTV footage from the fort showed a man, later identified as Chetan, tracking the couple closely while wearing a thick winter hoodie and a headset in 33 degrees Celsius heat. Footage also caught Siya glancing back at him, after which he immediately sat down to hide.

Following police interrogation, Chetan allegedly confessed to the crime. Both Siya Goyal and Chetan Chaudhary have been arrested and remanded to police custody on charges of murder and criminal conspiracy under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).

With agency inputs

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