Overview
- Goa Police arrested associate Ajay Gupta in Delhi in the Birch by Romeo Lane fire that killed 25, after a lookout circular and court warrant were issued.
- Owners Gaurav and Saurabh Luthra are reported in Thailand as police seek passport cancellation and Interpol notices; their anticipatory bail plea claims they left before the blaze and did not run daily operations.
- Goa’s government ordered enforcement action on unsafe or illegal venues, with a Wagator beach shack linked to the Luthras demolished and new inspection and licensing committees constituted.
- Belgium’s Supreme Court rejected Mehul Choksi’s appeal against extradition to India, a ruling that strengthens efforts to return the PNB-scam accused who remains jailed in Antwerp.
- Kanpur’s SIT intensified its probe into an alleged Rs 1,500 crore international fraud tied to Ravindra Nath Sony, seizing electronic records and noting 700-plus identified victims; separate police cases include a reported 5 kg gold theft on the Siddheshwar Express, a Nuh mob attack that freed a cyber-fraud suspect, and a Raisen social-boycott complaint under inquiry.