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Saurabh Luthra and Gaurav Luthra, the main accused and owners of the Goa nightclub wherever a monolithic blaze claimed 25 lives, fled to Phuket hours aft the tragedy, Goa Police said connected Monday (December 8, 2025).
“Goa Police person taken further steps to coordinate with the Interpol Division of the CBI to apprehend some Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra astatine the earliest,” a elder constabulary serviceman said.
A monolithic occurrence astatine the nightclub, immoderate 25 km distant from Panaji, connected precocious Saturday (December 6) nighttime killed 25 persons. The deceased comprised 20 employees of the nightclub and 5 tourists, including 4 from Delhi. Five injured radical were undergoing attraction astatine the government-run Goa Medical College and Hospital (GMCH).
After registering an FIR against them, a Look Out Circular was issued against them by December 7 by the Bureau of Intelligence (BOI) astatine the petition of the Goa Police.
The Bureau of Immigration astatine Mumbai was contacted, and it was recovered that some the accused had taken the 6E 1073 formation to Phuket astatine 5:30 a.m. connected December 7, instantly aft the occurrence incident, which occurred astir midnight, the serviceman said.
He said the Goa Police had instantly dispatched a squad to Delhi to behaviour raids connected the addresses of the accused Gaurav and Saurabh Luthra.
“Since they were not available, a announcement nether the due sections of instrumentality was pasted connected the gross of their house. This shows their intent to debar the constabulary investigation,” helium said.
Goa Police person obtained transit remand of Bharat Kohli, an worker of the club, and are bringing him to Goa.
He besides said that the postmortem connected each 25 deceased has been completed and bodies handed implicit to their families.
