25 people have died in the massive fire that broke out in a night club in Goa. So far, four staff including the general manager of the club have been arrested in this case. The police have also made the night club owners Luthra Brothers accused in this, but both of them have managed to flee the country.
According to Goa Police sources, on the same day the night club caught fire, club owners Gaurav Luthra and Saurabh Luthra had fled Mumbai to Thailand. He caught Indigo flight 6E 1073 and went to Phuket.
A senior police officer said, ‘Goa Police has taken steps to coordinate with the Interpol division of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to arrest Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra as soon as possible.’
25 killed in night club fire
25 people died in a massive fire that broke out in a night club, about 25 km from Panaji, late on Saturday night. The dead included 20 nightclub employees and five tourists, four of whom were from Delhi. The five injured are undergoing treatment at the Government Goa Medical College and Hospital (GMCH).
Lookout circular was issued on 7 December
After registering the FIR against the accused, a lookout circular was issued against them till December 7 by the Bureau of Intelligence (BOI) on the request of Goa Police. The Mumbai-based Bureau of Immigration was contacted and it was found that the two accused had boarded flight 6E 1073 to Phuket at 5.30 am on December 7, soon after the fire incident, which occurred around midnight, the official said.
Note pasted on house in Delhi
He told that Goa Police had immediately sent a team to Delhi to raid the premises of accused Gaurav and Saurabh Luthra. “Since he was not available, a notice under appropriate sections of the law was pasted at the gate of his house,” he said. This reveals their intention to avoid police investigation.
Goa Police has taken transit remand of Bharat Kohli, a club employee and is bringing him to Goa. He said that the postmortem of all the 25 deceased has been done and the bodies have been handed over to their families.