Fireworks banned at nightclubs, hotels, other tourist establishments in North Goa

Days aft a fire astatine a nightclub successful North Goa claimed 25 lives, the territory medication has issued an bid prohibiting the usage of fireworks, sparklers and pyrotechnics wrong tourer establishments.

The North Goa territory medication issued the bid connected Wednesday (December 10, 2025) evening arsenic a precautionary measurement pursuing the tragic occurrence incidental which occurred astatine the nightclub successful Arpora astir midnight connected December 6.

"The bid has been issued nether Section 163 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, prohibiting the use, bursting, ignition oregon cognition of fireworks, sparklers, pyrotechnic effects, occurrence thrower-type devices, fume generators and akin fire/smoke-producing instrumentality wrong tourer establishments," a elder territory medication authoritative said.

The prohibition applies to each nightclubs, bars and restaurants, hotels, guesthouses, resorts, formation shacks, impermanent structures, lawsuit venues and amusement establishments crossed North Goa, arsenic per the order.

A preliminary enquiry into the devastating occurrence astatine 'Birch by Romeo Lane' nightclub successful Arpora suggested that "electric firecrackers" were acceptable disconnected wrong the premises, sparking a blaze that claimed 25 lives, officials earlier said.