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Goa Fire Tragedy: A Goa court on Wednesday sent Gaurav Luthra and Saurabh Luthra, owners of the Goa nightclub linked to the devastating fire that killed 25 people earlier this month, to a five-day police custody. The two brothers were produced before the court after being deported from Thailand, where they had fled following the incident. They were brought back to Delhi on an emergency certificate on Tuesday from where they were flown to Goa. Goa Police took custody of the accused upon their arrival at Indira Gandhi International Airport and completed the necessary legal formalities before presenting them in court. The December 6 blaze, believed to have started during a fire show at the nightclub, prompted an Interpol Blue Corner Notice against them. After leaving for Phuket shortly after the incident, the brothers were detained by Thai authorities on December 11 following intervention by the Indian mission, which coordinated closely with the Thai government.
New Delhi, Dec 16 (PTI) Gaurav and Saurabh Luthra, co-owners of the Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub, were arrested on Tuesday after being deported from Thailand and placed under a two-day transit remand for production in a Goa court in connection with the December 6 fire incident that killed 25 people. The brothers arrived at the Indira Gandhi International Airport here in an Indigo flight and were immediately handed over to authorities for further legal proceedings, 10 days after the blaze tore through the nightclub in Arpora in North Goa. The two had fled to Phuket hours after the tragedy. A ...Read More >
New Delhi: The CBI has succeeded in facilitating the return of 134 fugitives from abroad in the last five years -- nearly twice the number of repatriated persons over an entire decade between 2010 and 2019, officials said. Coordinating closely with Interpol as well as state and central enforcement agencies, the CBI was able to secure the extradition or deportation of these 134 fugitives since 2020. Of these, 23 were brought back this year alone. In contrast, only 74 fugitives were brought back during the decade between 2010 and 2019. The uptick in the success rate can easily be attributed to ...Read More >
Thirty-five Indians were deported from the US, arriving in Delhi late Saturday. Most were from Haryana's Kaithal, Karnal, and Kurukshetra districts. Deportees spoke of immense financial loss and the perilous 'donkey route'. They had spent lakhs of rupees pursuing a better future. The US has intensified its crackdown on illegal immigrants.The latest batch of Indians deported by the US included 35 people from Haryana's Kaithal, Karnal and Kurukshetra districts, officials said on Sunday. A plane ca ...Read More >
Panaji: The owners of the Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub, Gaurav and Saurabh Luthra, were taken to Goa by the police from Delhi. A video of the Luthra brothers being taken to Goa as part of the investigation in the Birch by Romeo Lane fire incident surfaced online. Early morning visuals of the two accused from Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport showed them in police custody. On Tuesday, the Luthra brothers were deported to India from Thailand and landed at the Delhi Airport. Later in the day, a Delhi court granted a two-day transit remand of the Luthra brothers. Notably, the Luthra b ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: An alleged synthetic narcotics producer facing an Interpol Red Notice was deported to India from the UAE on Friday, in an operation coordinated by the CBI through Interpol and Mumbai police, officials said. Kubbawala Mustafa, the wanted drugs manufacturer, was brought from the UAE to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai, escorted by a four-member team of state police. "The International Police Cooperation Unit (IPCU) of CBI in collaboration with NCB-Abu Dhabi successfully brought back wanted Red Notice subject Kubbawala Mustafa to India on Friday," a CBI spo ...Read More >
New Delhi, Oct 23 (PTI) Days after London-based scholar Francesca Orsini was deported from the IGI Airport over alleged violation of visa conditions, the Congress on Thursday said the decision to bar her from the country is not a matter of immigration formality but a "symptom of the Modi government's hostility towards independent, serious-thinking, professional scholarship". Orsini, a scholar of Hindi and professor emerita at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), was deported Monday, soon after she arrived from Hong Kong, a source in the Ministry of Home Affairs had said. Orsini ...Read More >
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Tuesday allowed the Goa Police a two-day transit remand of Luthra brothers, Gaurav Luthra and Saurabh Luthra, co-owners of the Goa nightclub where 25 people were killed in a fire on December 6.The Goa Police produced both the accused before Judicial Magistrate Twinkle Chawla in the Patiala House Court to seek transit remand of three days. The investigating officer informed the court that they will be taken to Goa by flight at the earliest. The Judicial Magistrate allowed the Goa Police a transit remand of the Luthra brothers for two days.Both the accused were taken ...Read More >
Panaji, Dec 16 (PTI) Gaurav Luthra and his brother Saurabh, co-owners of the Goa nightclub where 25 people were killed in a fire on December 6, will be brought to Goa from Delhi by the coastal state's police on Wednesday around 11 am, a senior official said. A team of the Goa Police, which is currently in Delhi, will be landing with the Luthra brothers at the Manohar International Airport, Mopa in North Goa, the police spokesman said. "The police team along with the Luthra brothers will arrive at 11 am," he said. The Luthra brothers, co-owners of the 'Birch by Romeo Lane' nightclub at Arpor ...Read More >
New Delhi: Was it the pitch? Was it the conditions? Was it the bowling? The questions doing the rounds after yet another strange show in good batting conditions by India were many. But with the exception of Shubman Gill, who became just the second Indian captain, after Mohammad Azharuddin, to score hundreds in consecutive matches in England, and Yashasvi Jaiswal, few India batters managed to answer them in a satisfactory manner. After being put into bat by England, India looked like they were in control at various points during the day but then somehow contrived to gift away wickets and end t ...Read More >
New Delhi: In a significant breakthrough, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has facilitated the deportation of Kubbawala Mustafa from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to India, with support from Interpol and the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in Abu Dhabi. Taking to X on Friday, July 11, the CBI confirmed the operation in an official statement. Mustafa, wanted in connection with a 2024 synthetic drug case registered at Kurla Police Station in Mumbai, was brought to India on Thursday, July 10. A four-member team from Mumbai Police travelled to Dubai on Monday, July 7, to carry out the d ...Read More >
Guwahati, Oct 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the death of Assamese singer Zubeen Garg has arrested North East India Festival (NEIF) chief organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta and the singer's manager Siddhartha Sharma, officials confirmed on Wednesday. Mahanta was taken into custody at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport soon after his return from Singapore, where the festival was being held. Sharma, on the other hand, was apprehended from a residential apartment in Gurugram late Tuesday night. Both were flown to Guwahati in the early hours of Wednesday and a ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], November 19 (ANI) Marking a significant breakthrough in its crackdown on gang-terror networks, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested Anmol Bishnoi, the brother and close aide of dreaded jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, on his deportation from the US to India on Wednesday. In a statement, the NIA said Anmol Bishnoi is the 19th accused to be arrested for his involvement in the terror-syndicate led by his brother Lawrence Bishnoi. He has been absconding since 2022. Anmol was chargesheeted by the NIA in March 2023 after investigations in the case established tha ...Read More >
Panaji, Dec 17 (PTI) A court in North Goa on Wednesday remanded Gaurav and Saurabh Luthra, co-owners of the 'Birch by Romeo Lane' nightclub, in police custody for five days. The brothers, who were brought to Goa from Delhi earlier in the day after being deported from Thailand in connection with the December 6 fire incident that killed 25 persons, were produced in the court after undergoing health check-ups twice at the District Hospital in North Goa. Judicial Magistrate First Class Mapusa Puja Sardesai remanded the two brothers in police custody for two days. A team of the Goa Police, along ...Read More >
Professor Francesca Orsini, a scholar of Hindi, was deported from Delhi's IGI Airport. Sources stated she violated her tourist visa conditions. Orsini had been on a blacklist since March 2025. Her deportation has drawn criticism from historians Ramachandra Guha and Mukul Kesavan. They highlighted her contributions to Indian literature and questioned the government's actions. A professor associated with the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London was deported fro ...Read More >
New Delhi: A 54-year-old Canada-based man, claiming to be a former national-level kabaddi player, has been arrested by IGI Airport police for allegedly issuing fraudulent documents to two of the nine Indian passengers who were deported from Ethiopia six years ago. The case surfaced when on Sept 27, 2019, the passengers were deported from the east African country for possessing fake continuous discharge certificates (CDCs) allegedly issued by the ministry of works, transport and infrastructure, govt of Samoa. Samoa denied having issued the documents. A case was subsequently registered at the IG ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], December 17 (ANI): The owners of the Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub in Goa's Arpora, brothers Gaurav and Saurabh Luthra, have been taken to Goa by the Goa Police after a Delhi Court granted a two-day transit remand, officials said on Wednesday. Visuals of early Wednesday morning from Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport showed the two in police custody following their deportation from Thailand and arrest by a Goa Police team. The Luthra brothers were brought to Delhi earlier on Tuesday after being deported from Thailand, where they had allegedly fled following a dead ...Read More >
Guwahati, Oct 1 (PTI) Zubeen Garg's manager Siddhartha Sharma and festival chief organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta were arrested from Delhi on Wednesday morning in connection with the singer's death in Singapore last month, Assam Police said. The duo has been booked under various sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) for culpable homicide not amounting to murder, criminal conspiracy and causing death by negligence, a senior police officer said. Soon after their arrest, they were brought to Guwahati and produced before the Kamrup Chief Judicial Magistrate's court, which sent them to 14 days ...Read More >
Goa nightclub fire: Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra, co-owners of the fire-hit 'Birch by Romeo Lane' nightclub in Goa, were detained by Thai police in Phuket. The two brothers had shot to national infamy after fleeing India even as 25 people lay dead in the blaze at their club. The Luthras' arrest marked a significant step in India's efforts to bring them back to face investigation into one of the deadliest nightclub disasters in recent memory. Thai authorities tracked the duo to Hotel Indigo in Pato ...Read More >
Guwahati, Oct 1 (PTI) Northeast India Festival (NEIF) chief organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta and Zubeen Garg's manager Siddhartha Sharma have been remanded to 14 days' police custody by the Kamrup Chief Judicial Magistrate in connection with the singer's death in Singapore, a senior police official said on Wednesday. The duo was arrested and brought to Guwahati from Delhi on Wednesday morning, Special DGP (CID) Munna Prasad Gupta said, adding that investigations into the singer's death will be ''conducted in accordance with the law''. Gupta, who heads the SIT formed to probe Garg's death, said bo ...Read More >
New Delhi, Dec 16 (PTI) A Delhi court on Tuesday allowed the Goa Police a two-day transit remand of Gaurav Luthra and Saurabh Luthra, co-owners of the Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub where 25 people were killed in a fire on December 6. The Goa Police produced both the accused before Judicial Magistrate Twinkle Chawla in the Patiala House Court to seek transit remand of three days. Allowing two days of transit remand, the court also directed the police officials to provide prescribed medicines to both accused. The investigating officer informed the court that they will be taken to Goa by fligh ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], December 17 (ANI): The owners of the Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub in Goa's Arpora, brothers Gaurav Luthra and Saurabh Luthra, were taken from Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport in New Delhi to Goa on Wednesday morning after a Delhi court granted a 48-hour transit remand to the two accused. Visuals from early Wednesday morning at IGI Airport showed the brothers in police custody. Also Read | 'Agar Mai Aapki Dhoti...': Rakhi Sawant Fumes Over 'UP CM' Nitish Kumar's AYUSH Doctor Hijab Pulling Incident, Demands Apology (Watch Video). The Goa Police arrested the accuse ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 19 (ANI): Three illegal Bangladeshi immigrants who were involved in begging and other criminal activities in the national capital were apprehended from the Mukherjee Nagar area during the intervening night of July 14-15, police said. Acting on credible intelligence that some Bangladeshi nationals were observed moving suspiciously in the Mukherjee Nagar area during late-night hours, the foreigner cell of North-West District, Delhi Police, promptly launched a covert operation. Police said that after apprehending the suspects, a detailed verification process was carried ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: London-based academician and researcher Francesca Orsini was on Monday denied entry into India upon arrival at the Indira Gandhi International Airport here, as she "was blacklisted in March this year for having violated the conditions of her tourist visa by undertaking research during her previous visits", according to govt sources.Orsini, Professor Emerita of Hindi and South Asian Literature at the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics in London, is a literary historian working with Hindi and Urdu texts and has been researching into how multilingualism works within the lite ...Read More >
New Delhi, Oct 25 (PTI) A fugitive gangster associated with the Lawrence Bishnoi gang was deported from the United States on Saturday in an operation coordinated by the Central Bureau of Investigation, officials said. Lakhvinder Kumar, who had an Interpol Red Notice issued against him, was brought to the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi, where he was arrested by the Haryana Police, they said. Kumar was wanted in multiple criminal cases registered by the Haryana Police related to extortion, intimidation, illegal possession and use of firearms, and attempt to murder, a CBI spokespe ...Read More >
Gurgaon: The special task force (STF) in Haryana arrested Lakhwinder Singh, alias Lakha, a notorious gangster who was deported from the US following months of coordinated efforts between Indian and international agencies.Lakha -- hailing from Titram village in Kaithal district -- is best known as a close confidant of Anmol Bishnoi, the brother of jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi. His reputation for orchestrating extortion rackets and his alleged role in violent crimes made him a feared figure across Haryana, Punjab, and Rajasthan. According to police records, Lakha has six criminal cases regis ...Read More >
According to officials, as quoted by PTI, Bishnoi arrived in Delhi after being "removed" from the US, where he had been detained since November last year. He is expected to be produced before a special court in the capital shortly. Anmol Bishnoi has been on the radar of multiple investigative agencies for his alleged involvement in high-profile attacks, including the firing outside actor Salman Khan's Mumbai residence in April 2024 and the assassination of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala. Gangste ...Read More >
Panaji, Dec 16 (PTI) Gaurav Luthra and his brother Saurabh, co-owners of the Goa nightclub where 25 people were killed in a fire on December 6, are expected to be brought to the state on Wednesday morning by the local police, which secured their transit remand from a Delhi court, a senior official said. The Luthra brothers, co-owners of the 'Birch by Romeo Lane' nightclub at Arpora in North Goa, were arrested on Tuesday as soon as they landed in Delhi after being deported from Thailand. The duo had fled to Phuket (Thailand) early on December 7, hours after the fire at their nightclub, prompt ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], December 17 (ANI): The Goa Police sought transit remand of nightclub owners Gaurav Luthra and Saurabh Luthra on Tuesday, citing that the deadly fire broke out after a firework event was organised at the nightclub without proper fire-safety equipment and other essential safety gadgets, telling a Delhi court that their custodial presence in Goa was required for a critical stage of the investigation. Placing its submissions before the Patiala House Court, the Goa Police stated that the accused are the main owners and partners of 'Birch by Romeo Lane' in North Goa's Arpora area ...Read More >
Guwahati, Oct 1 (PTI) North East India Festival (NEIF) chief organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta and singer Zubeen Garg's manager Siddhartha Sharma have been remanded to 14 days' police custody by the Kamrup Chief Judicial Magistrate, a senior police official said on Wednesday. The duo was arrested and brought to Guwahati from Delhi in connection with the singer's death in Singapore, the official added. Mahanta was arrested on his arrival at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi from Singapore while Sharma was arrested from an apartment in Gurugram. The official said Sharma's locatio ...Read More >
Guwahati, Oct 1 (PTI) North East India Festival (NEIF) chief organiser Shyamkanu Mahanta and Zubeen Garg's manager Siddhartha Sharma have been arrested in connection with the singer's death in Singapore, police said on Wednesday. Mahanta was arrested on his arrival at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi from Singapore while Sharma was arrested from an apartment in Gurugram. The duo was brought to Guwahati early on Wednesday morning, a senior police official told PTI. Meanwhile, Zubeen's wife Garima Saikia Garg, who is in Jorhat for the 13th day rituals of the deceased singe ...Read More >