Arguing before a Delhi court during the anticipatory bail proceedings of the purported owners of a nightclub in Goa, where a fire killed 25 people on Saturday night, the Goa Police said that Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra “fled to Thailand” after booking a flight just 1.5 hours after the fire broke out.

The Luthra brothers, who ran Birch by Romeo Lane at Arpora in North Goa, were detained in Thailand on Thursday, and the process to bring them to India is underway.

The Goa Police told the court that the duo booked their tickets for Phuket through a travel portal at 1.17 am on December 7, within an hour of learning about the fire at the nightclub. “People are dying…they got to know, and then they booked a flight to leave the country,” said the counsel appearing for the police.

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