New Delhi: A National Commission for Men Bill has been introduced in Parliament by Rajya Sabha MP Ashok Kumar Mittal, who said that the recent Ketan Agarwal case has highlighted that men can be victims too and deserve institutional support and legal protection.
The former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP described the recent Siya-Ketan case as “deeply disturbing” and called for a fair and impartial investigation, in a post on X, as reported by News18.
“I introduced the National Commission for Men Bill in Parliament. Every victim deserves justice, support, and equal protection under the law,” he said.
“The Ketan case is a reminder that men, too, can be victims. They deserve institutional support, legal protection, and a platform where their voices are heard. Justice must be equal for everyone, irrespective of gender,” the BJP MP said.
Ketan Agarwal, a 25-year-old realtor from Pune, fell off a cliff at the Lohagad Fort on June 18. The case took a dramatic turn when it came to be known that his fiancée Siya Goyal allegedly conspired with her lover Chetan Chaudhary to push him off the cliff.
Agarwal was engaged to Siya, and the couple was reportedly scheduled to marry in November this year in a grand wedding at Udaipur in Rajasthan. The case attracted widespread public attention due to its shocking allegations and the circumstances surrounding the victim’s death.
Siya and Chaudhary are currently in 14-day judicial custody after refusing to undergo a polygraph test. Pune Police told the court they recovered deleted data from the accused’s phones, including chats allegedly written in code words, nicknames and emojis. Investigators are examining whether these conversations point to the involvement of a third person in the alleged conspiracy.
