New Delhi: Ajay Gupta, co-owner of Goa's Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub, claimed he is "only a partner" as Delhi's Crime Branch Anti Extortion and Kidnapping Cell brought him in on Wednesday for questioning over the blaze that killed 25 people.

Wearing a mask that obscured most of his face, Gupta made the remark while entering the Sunlight Colony Crime Branch office.

Sources revealed that the Goa Police questioned him and launched procedures for arrest and transit remand after he evaded investigators since the December 6 fire in north Goa's Arpora area. "A Look Out Circular (LOC) had been issued against him after the Goa Police failed to find him in Delhi during their first search. He was later located at a private hospital in Lajpat Nagar, where he had reportedly admitted himself citing

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