Claim
After the recreation, the dummy was left abandoned in the gorge and not a single member of the police or forensic team came to check where or how far the dummy had fallen, or whether it landed where Ketan's body was recovered.
“हकीकत यह है कि वह डमी खाई में लावारिस पड़ी रही। पूरे पुलिस या फॉरेंसिक टीम का एक भी मेंबर यहां यह देखने नहीं आया कि डमी ट्रायल के दौरान यह डमी ऊंचाई से नीचे कहां गिरी, कितनी दूरी पर गिरी?”▶ Watch source segment
Rationale
The underlying event is real and well-documented: Pune Rural Police recreated the Ketan Agarwal case at Lohagad Fort by throwing a weight-matched dummy into a ~300-400 ft gorge. However, the specific assertion — that the dummy was left abandoned and no police or forensic member checked where or how far it fell or whether it matched the body-recovery spot — is an investigative claim made by the anchor that no independent source, fact-checker (AltNews, BOOM, Factly, Newschecker, PIB), court record, or wire report corroborates or refutes. It is a negative procedural claim that available evidence cannot confirm or disprove; one report even notes the damaged dummy was 'found,' suggesting some observation occurred, but nothing settles the point either way.
Evidence
- https://telanganatoday.com/pune-police-throw-fibre-dummy-into-300-ft-gorge-to-recreate-ketan-agarwal-murder-scene Confirms Pune Rural Police recreated the crime scene at Lohagad Fort by throwing a fibre dummy matching Ketan Agarwal's height/weight into a 300+ ft gorge, but says nothing about whether police checked where the dummy landed relative to where the body was recovered. ✓ reachable · archived
- https://www.aajtak.in/india/maharashtra/story/ketan-agarwal-murder-case-crime-recreation-lohgarh-fort-siya-goyal-chetan-chaudhary-lclar-strc-2591963-2026-07-01 AajTak report on the recreation with the dummy dropped from ~400 ft; describes the exercise but does not corroborate or refute the claim that no police/forensic member examined the dummy's landing point. ✓ reachable · archived
- https://navbharatlive.com/maharashtra/pune/ketan-agarwal-murder-case-pune-rural-police-recreate-crime-scene-lohagad-fort-1832898.html Notes the dummy was found completely damaged/broken after the ~350-400 ft fall, implying its condition was at least observed — mild tension with the claim that no one checked where it fell, but not a direct contradiction. ✓ reachable · archived
- https://www.prabhatkhabar.com/national/what-police-found-in-ketan-agarwal-murder-scene-recreation-know-details Details what police reportedly learned from the crime-scene recreation, but contains nothing on whether the dummy's landing location was measured against the body-recovery spot. ✓ reachable · archived