In an unfortunate incident, a massive fire broke out at a nightclub in Goa, taking the lives of 25 people. After this, the owners, Saurabh Luthra and Gaurav Luthra, fled to Thailand and have now been deported back to India, according to reports. The duo are expected to land at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport at 1:55 PM, where a team of the Goa Police will be waiting for them. They will detain both of them at the airport.
About The Goa Nightclub Fire
As reported by HT, the brothers will be produced before Delhi’s Patiala House Court on Tuesday, December 16, to look for their transit remand, and a Goa Police team will get them to Goa on the same night. Saurabh Luthra and Gaurav Luthra, owners of the Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub, had fled to Thailand hours after the deadly fire broke out at their nightclub that killed 25 people on the intervening night of December 6-7. This incident shook the internet and created a chaos of answers regarding the unfortunate deaths.
Both of them were detained by Thai law enforcement officials on Monday, December 15, at their hotel in Phuket after a request from India. After this, their passports were impounded by the Indian government along with a Blue notice via Interpol. In an FIR filed on Sunday, December 14, the brothers were charged under sections 105 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), 125(a) and (b) (endangering life and personal safety), and 287 (negligent conduct with fire or combustible matter) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
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The FIR further alleges that on December 6, when the fire broke out, the accused Luthra brothers had planned a fire show at the site without taking adequate precautions or supplying fire safety equipment, according to news agency ANI. Previously, a municipal court in Delhi denied their anticipatory bail petition, in which they claimed they feared being “lynched” in Goa, where bulldozers had been used to demolish unlicensed pubs and clubs since the fire.