Three months before his wedding, 26-year-old Ketan Aggarwal stood smiling beside his fiancée during a lavish engagement photoshoot. They toured luxury wedding venues in Udaipur, celebrated birthdays together, and appeared to be building the kind of future many families dream of.

Then Ketan fell nearly 400 feet from Lohagad Fort.

At first, it looked like a tragic hiking accident.

Days later, police began investigating it as murder.

Prosecutors now allege that Ketan's fiancée, Siya Goyal, conspired with another man to kill him just weeks before their wedding. Investigators claim the relationship had been hidden behind months of engagement celebrations, family gatherings, and wedding planning.

But this case raises questions that reach far beyond one investigation.

How does someone continue planning a marriage they allegedly never intended to go through with? What happens when personal choice collides with family expectations? And why has India now seen multiple high-profile cases in which marriage itself appears to become the setting for murder?

In this episode of Missing Context, we examine the allegations, the digital evidence, the cultural context surrounding Marwari business families, and the disturbing questions this case has forced many people to confront.

At the time of publication, Siya Goyal and Chetan Choudhary have been charged, but the allegations discussed in this episode have not yet been tested in court. Both remain presumed innocent unless proven guilty.

In 1993, the disappearance of a Malaysian politician led police to one of the country’s most shocking murder cases. At its centre was Mona Fandey—a former pop singer turned bomoh whose extravagant lifestyle, promises of wealth and power, and carefully crafted image attracted followers from across Malaysia.

But Mona’s story isn’t just about superstition or ritual. It’s about influence.

In this episode of Missing Context, we revisit the murder of Mazlan Idris and look beyond the sensational headlines to ask a different question: How did an educated, internationally travelled public official come to believe that Mona Fandey could change his political fortunes? What made her so persuasive?

This episode explores one of Malaysia’s most infamous crimes through the people at its centre—not just what happened, but why it happened.

In 2019, a sexual assault case from the town of Pollachi in Tamil Nadu shocked India. But the story wasn’t just about the men who committed these crimes. It was about how they were able to keep doing it for years.

In this episode of Missing Context, we look beyond the headlines to understand how trust, shame, blackmail, and social expectations created the conditions that allowed so many women to remain silent. Why was it so difficult to come forward? What fears did the perpetrators exploit? And how did one complaint unravel a case that would expose a much larger pattern of abuse?

This episode examines the human stories behind the Pollachi case, the investigation that followed, and the convictions that finally brought it to court—while asking what the case reveals about power, reputation, and the cost of forced silence.