Days after a fire accident killed 25 people in a nightclub in North Goa, a man, who claimed to be the original owner of the land on which the nightclub stood, alleged that a portion of his property was converted from a salt pan to a settlement zone without his knowledge to benefit the club.

Pradeep Ghadi Amonkar claimed that it was his land on which ‘Birch by Romeo Lane’ stood. He said that he signed a sale agreement with Surinder Kumar Khosla almost two decades ago, in 2004. However, the agreement was cancelled within six months as Amonkar did not receive the payment. Khosla set up a nightclub on the land, and it was later taken over by Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra, owners of Birch by Romeo Lane.

Fire accident

On the night of December 6, a blaze swept through the nightclub in Arpora vil

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