Blitz Bureau
NEW DELHI: Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra, the owners of North Goa’s Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub, have boarded a flight to Delhi from Bangkok after being deported on December 16. The brothers will be taken into custody by the Goa Police immediately upon their arrival in Delhi. Thai authorities had detained the Luthra brothers on the basis of an INTERPOL Blue Corner Notice issued at the request of Indian law enforcement agencies.
Following their detention, the two will be produced before a Delhi court to seek a transit remand, after which they will be brought to Goa for further investigation in connection with the deadly fire incident at the nightclub. As part of the ongoing probe, police are recording statements of officials from the excise department.
Statements of individuals associated with the local panchayat body are also being examined, with investigators saying that several important and concrete pieces of information have emerged during the course of the inquiry, sources said. They added that the magisterial inquiry committee constituted to probe the incident has also questioned Pradeep Ghadi Amonkar, the original landowner of the property.
According to sources, the committee has summoned more than 100 people to participate in the investigation, and statements of at least 20 individuals have been recorded so far. Earlier on December 11, a Delhi court rejected the anticipatory bail pleas filed by Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra after considering a response submitted by the Goa Police.