Overview
- A Rohini court heard the anticipatory bail plea of owners Gaurav and Saurabh Luthra, whose lawyers said they were not at the venue and attributed the blaze to stage pyrotechnics, as they remain in Thailand seeking protection to return.
- Police documents indicate the Luthra group is linked to 42 companies and LLPs registered largely to a single Delhi address, and investigators are examining funding routes after finding no operational outlet in Phuket as previously claimed.
- Co-owner Ajay Gupta was arrested in New Delhi and has been sent to seven days of police remand after being produced before the Mapusa court.
- Goa authorities demolished the illegal Romeo Lane beach shack at Vagator, issued look‑out and passport measures for fugitives, and set up committees for random fire and licensing inspections across hospitality venues.
- The fire killed 25 people and injured several; the PM’s relief fund announced Rs 2 lakh to each deceased’s next of kin and Rs 50,000 to the injured, as survivor accounts and the FIR cite the absence of extinguishers, sprinklers, alarms and a prior fire audit.