Eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) is an important vegetable crop in India and worldwide. From 2016 through 2022, characteristic symptoms of fusarium wilt were observed in experimental eggplant fields with 50-60% yield loss in the host Institute, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi (India). Wilt disease is emerged as a serious problem in eggplant cultivation. Given the complex etiology reported in fusarium wilt, the causal agent was investigated by morphological, pathological and molecular characterizations. The experiments identified Fusarium equiseti as the causal agent, which appears to be the first record in India.