Panaji/Goa: Ajay Gupta, one of the owners of the Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub where 25 people were killed in a devastating fire on December 6, is currently detained at the Anjuna Police Station and will be produced in court today.

Gupta was brought to Goa late on Thursday night after being granted a 36-hour transit remand by Delhi’s Saket Court on December 10. He is expected to be taken from Anjuna Police Station to Mapusa Court at 12 pm, with police personnel preparing to leave the station shortly.

Inside the lock-up at the Anjuna Police Station, Gupta was visited by two men but they refused to speak with the media. Gupta has claimed that he was merely a “sleeping partner” of the nightclub with no knowledge of its operational details.

Meanwhile, in a major parallel development, t

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