{"id":319344,"date":"2025-12-09T09:32:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T01:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=319344"},"modified":"2025-12-09T09:36:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T01:36:03","slug":"four-arrested-three-officials-suspended-over-lapses-in-indias-goa-nightclub-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=319344","title":{"rendered":"Four Arrested, Three Officials Suspended Over Lapses In India&#8217;s Goa Nightclub Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NEW DELHI, Dec 9 (NNN-PTI) &#8211; Authorities in the western Indian state of Goa, arrested four people and suspended three government officials, in connection with the deadly fire at a nightclub that killed 25 people, officials said yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fire, early Sunday, tore through a popular nightclub in Arpora village of North Goa district, about 16 km north-west of Panaji, the capital city of Goa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Police have arrested four people, including the general manager and three staffers of the nightclub. A rural body head (locally called sarpanch) was also detained for issuing a trade license for the nightclub&#8217;s premises in 2013,&#8221; an official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The government has also suspended three officials over lapses in granting permissions to the Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the police, the fire killed 25 people and injured six others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police have already registered a case against the nightclub&#8217;s owners and the event organisers. A lookout notice has also been issued against the owners of the nightclub.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday, the local Goa government constituted a four-member magisterial inquiry committee, to find out about the circumstances that led to the deadly fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chances of fire in India are often high, as owners of buildings and houses usually ignore safety standards with regard to fire, and store fuel and combustible materials in a haphazard manner.&#8211; NNN-PTI &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, Dec 9 (NNN-PTI) &#8211; Authorities in the western Indian state of Goa, arrested four people and suspended three government officials, in connection with the deadly fire at a nightclub that killed 25 people, officials said yesterday. The fire, early Sunday, tore through a popular nightclub in Arpora village of North Goa district, about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":319347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,286],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319344"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=319344"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319349,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319344\/revisions\/319349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/319347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=319344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=319344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=319344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}