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The Interpol has issued a Blue Notice against Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra, the owners of a Goa nightclub wherever a monolithic blaze has claimed 25 lives, to way their whereabouts, officials said connected Tuesday (December 9, 2025).
The Luthras person fled the state since the incident.
The Goa Police had approached the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for the issuance of an Interpol Blue Notice against Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra, the owners of the Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub successful Arpora, wherever the incidental happened connected Saturday (December 6).
The Luthras are believed to person fled to Thailand’s Phuket, the officials said.
The monolithic occurrence astatine the nightclub, immoderate 25 km from Panaji, killed 25 radical precocious connected Saturday (December 6) night.
The deceased comprised 20 employees of the nightclub and 5 tourists, including 4 from Delhi. Five injured radical are undergoing attraction astatine the government-run Goa Medical College and Hospital (GMCH).
The CBI instantly swung into enactment and approached Interpol for the issuance of the Blue Notice against the two.
An Interpol colour-coded announcement alerts each 196 subordinate countries of the Lyon-based organisation astir a subordinate country’s petition to find peculiar information.
The Blue Notice is 1 of the 9 colour-coded notices disposable with the planetary constabulary practice agency. It is issued to cod further accusation astir a person’s identity, determination oregon activities successful narration to a transgression investigation.
Another astir sought aft announcement is the Red Notice, which calls for the detention of a fugitive and tin lone beryllium issued aft a chargesheet is filed and a non-bailable warrant issued against the wanted person. It seeks to find and apprehension radical wanted for prosecution oregon to service a sentence.
The Yellow Notice helps find missing persons, often minors, oregon place persons who are incapable to place themselves. The Black Notice is issued to question accusation connected unidentified bodies. The Green Notice is for informing astir someone’s transgression activities, wherever the idiosyncratic is considered to beryllium a imaginable menace to nationalist safety.
The Orange Notice warns of an event, a person, an entity oregon a process representing a superior and imminent menace to nationalist safety, portion the Purple Notice seeks oregon provides accusation connected modus operandi, objects, devices and concealment methods utilized by criminals.
The Interpol’s United Nations Security Council Special Notice is issued for entities and individuals who are targets of the U.N. Security Council sanctions committees.
The organisation besides introduced the Silver Notice aboriginal this twelvemonth connected a aviator ground to way illicit assets.
Meanwhile, the Goa Police has issued a Look Out Circular (LOC) against different acceptable of owners of the nightclub, Ajay Gupta and Surinder Kumar Khosla, who is simply a British citizen, Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police Varsha Sharma said successful Panaji connected Tuesday (December 9).
Two Goa authorities officers person besides been asked to articulation the investigation.
Police person truthful acold arrested 5 radical – the nightclub’s main wide manager Rajiv Modak, wide manager Vivek Singh, barroom manager Rajiv Singhania, gross manager Riyanshu Thakur and Bharat Kohli.
