Goa nightclub fire: ED conducts raids against Luthra brothers

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File representation   of an excavator demolishing woody  structures astatine  Romeo Lane connected  Anjuna formation  successful  Goa aft  a occurrence  astatine  the adjacent Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub killed 25 people

File representation of an excavator demolishing woody structures astatine Romeo Lane connected Anjuna formation successful Goa aft a occurrence astatine the adjacent Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub killed 25 people | Photo Credit: PTI

The Enforcement Directorate has been conducting hunt operations since aboriginal Friday greeting (January 23, 2026) connected the residential and bureau premises of the Luthra brothers and Ajay Gupta, owners of Birch by Romeo Lane, successful Arpora, Goa, wherever a fire claimed 25 lives during a party past month.

The ED aims to probe the money-laundering space linked to the amerciable functioning of the nine and the relation of its promoters, successful the backdrop of the unfortunate occurrence mishap successful Goa that claimed 25 lives connected December 6, 2025.

Searches are being conducted astatine 8 to 9 locations crossed Delhi and Goa, including premises astatine Outram Lanes (Kingsway Camp), Tatvam Villas successful Gurugram, and the premises of the past Sarpanch, Roshan Redkar, and the Panchayat Secretary, Raghuvir Bagkar, successful Goa. They are alleged to person facilitated and issued amerciable commercialized licences and no-objection certificates.

The ED teams are besides contiguous connected the premises of Surinder Kumar Khosla to analyse the money-laundering space arising from the amerciable conversion of khazan land (salt pan) connected which Birch by Romeo Lane was situated, said bureau sources.

Published - January 23, 2026 11:19 americium IST

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