Panaji: Hours after a fire at their nightclub in North Goa’s Arpora village killed 25 people Saturday night, the two owner-brothers escaped to Thailand’s Phuket, the Goa Police said Monday.
Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra have been booked by the Goa Police under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections 105 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), 125 (act endangering life or personal safety of others), 125 (a), 125 (b) and 287 (negligent conduct with respect to fire or combustible matter) read with section 3 (5) (common intention).
Goa Director General of Police Alok Kumar said that when investigators contacted the Bureau of Immigration, they were told that the owner-brothers of the Birch by Romeo Lane fled the country at 5.30 am Sunday in an IndiGo flight.
“It shows their intent to avoid police investigation,” he said.
The fire at their Birch by Romeo Lane restaurant-cum-nightclub located in Arpora village of North Goa district occurred around midnight.
The DGP further said that the Goa Police have contacted the Central Bureau of Investigation to get the Luthra brothers, who are from Delhi, arrested at the earliest.
The state police has booked Luthras and other managerial staff over the incident. So far, the state police has arrested five members of the facility’s management.
A team of the Goa Police was also sent to Delhi to find the whereabouts of the Luthra brothers.
(Edited by Ajeet Tiwari)thailand
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