Overview
- Goa Police arrested co‑owner Ajay Gupta in New Delhi in the Birch by Romeo Lane fire case after a lookout circular and court warrant, and took him into custody for the probe.
- Authorities suspended the Indian passports of Gaurav and Saurabh Luthra and secured an Interpol Blue Corner notice as a Delhi court declined interim relief on their anticipatory‑bail plea and listed further hearing for Thursday.
- Acting on the chief minister’s orders, Goa demolished the Luthras’ alleged illegal Romeo Lane beach shack in Vagator and formed multi‑agency teams for random safety checks after an FIR detailed absent extinguishers, sprinklers, alarms and any prior fire audit.
- Belgium’s Supreme Court rejected Mehul Choksi’s appeal against extradition to India, strengthening efforts to bring the PNB‑scam accused back while he remains in custody in Antwerp.
- In separate law‑and‑order developments, Kanpur Police’s SIT is probing an alleged Rs 1,500 crore international fraud linked to at least 16 companies with 700+ complainants, and in Nuh villagers injured four officers and freed a cyber‑fraud suspect before FIRs were lodged.