Goa Nightclub Fireplace: Court docket Denies Reduction to Birch House owners Amidst Allegations of Witch-Hunt

A Delhi’s court docket on Wednesday refused rapid interim reduction to Luthra brothers – Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra – homeowners of Birch by Romeo Lane’ nightclub in Goa which caught fireplace and killed no less than 25 folks on weekend.

The Rohini Court docket of Delhi sought a response from the Goa authorities on the transit anticipatory bail filed by the Luthra brothers accused within the nightclub fireplace.

The matter was listed for Thursday, December 11.

Represented by senior advocates Sidharth Luthra and Tanvir Ahmed Mir, Gaurav and Saurabh Luthra mentioned that they search safety to return again to India and strategy the courts in Goa for additional reduction as they apprehend arrest after touchdown in Delhi, HT leant.

They argued that culpability of the incident can’t be attributed to them as native managers of the membership have already been arrested and the state is indulging in a ‘witch-hunt’ as they don’t seem to be homeowners of the membership in query and solely licensees.

Luthra brothers in Thailand

Indian businesses are in contact with the Thai authorities to geo-locate Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra in Thailand’s Phuket and get them deported primarily based on an arrest warrant as quickly as potential as a substitute of going by the cumbersome extradition course of, HT earlier reported, citing folks conversant in the event.

Officers are constructive on tracing Luthras, given the pleasant relations between Indian and Thai businesses in legal issues. Officers really feel the Luthra brothers can be introduced again quickly, contemplating a number of fugitives have been introduced from Bangkok previously decade.

The Delhi-based entrepreneurs fled to Phuket on an IndiGo flight at 5.30 am on Sunday, roughly six hours after the fireplace on the membership they owned in north Goa killed 25 folks amid allegations of mismanagement and violation of security norms, a separate HT report quoted police as saying on Monday.

Goa police failed to seek out the brothers at their residence in north Delhi on Monday and later mentioned that they fled to Phuket at 5.30 am by way of an IndiGo flight.

The Goa police had issued a lookout discover towards the brothers with the Bureau of Immigration at Mumbai on Sunday night.

“The Bureau of Immigration at Mumbai was contacted and it was discovered that each the accused had taken 6E 1073 flight (New Delhi to Phuket) at 5.30am on seventh December i.e. instantly after the incident which had taken place round midnight. It reveals their intent to keep away from police investigation,” deputy superintendent of police and public relations officer Nilesh Rane was quoted as saying within the report.