Overview
- Goa police arrested Delhi-based co-owner Ajay Gupta in the Birch by Romeo Lane fire case under a court warrant after a lookout notice and brought him into custody.
- Fugitive owners Gaurav and Saurabh Luthra fled to Thailand as officials coordinated with Interpol, with a Blue Corner notice reported and passport cancellation sought, and their legal team filed for anticipatory bail in a Delhi court.
- Goa’s government demolished the Luthras’ illegal Romeo Lane beach shack and formed inspection and licensing-review panels after an FIR cited missing extinguishers, sprinklers, alarms, smoke extraction, and any prior fire audit.
- In Haryana’s Nuh, villagers stoned police and freed a cyber-fraud suspect named Riaz, seriously injuring four officers as an FIR was registered and participants were being identified.
- Elsewhere, Srinagar police detained former JKLF commander Javed Ahmad Mir in a 1996 case a day after a related arrest, while Gujarat police arrested the identified suspect in a severe assault on a six-year-old who was reported stable in hospital.