Deeply shaken: Goa club owner breaks silence as crackdown tightens in deadly fire

Taking to Instagram, the owner, Saurabh Luthra, posted a story and wrote: "The management expresses profound grief and is deeply shaken by the tragic loss of lives resulting from the unfortunate incident at Birch."

Amid the ongoing probe into the deadly fire, Luthra also assured “every possible form of assistance, support and cooperation" to the bereaved.

He owned Birch by Romeo Lane, the nightclub in Goa where a fire broke out on the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday, killing 25 people.