Goa Club Fire Victims' Kin Seek Death Row For Luthra Brothers

Kin protest at Jantar Mantar demanding death penalty for club owners accused in blaze

Luthra brothers taken into police custody
Gaurav Luthra and Saurabh Luthra, co-owners of Goa's Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub where a massive fire killed 25 people, upon their arrival in New Delhi. The brothers were deported from Thailand on Tuesday and taken into custody by Delhi and Goa police as soon as they landed in Delhi. | Photo: PTI
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  • Families of victims staged a protest in Delhi, demanding capital punishment for the owners of the Goa nightclub where 25 people died.

  • Protesters held brothers Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra responsible, chanting slogans like “hang the killers.”

  • The accused fled to Thailand after the December 6 fire, were deported on December 17, and are now in Goa police custody.

Families of the victims of the Goa nightclub fire held a protest at Delhi's Jantar Mantar on Sunday, demanding a death sentence for the owners of the club where the tragedy occurred.

Raising slogans such as "hang the killers", the protesters named brothers Saurabh Luthra and Gaurav Luthra, holding them responsible for the blaze that claimed 25 lives.

The families said that justice must be delivered for those who died and those who were injured in the incident.

The fire broke out on December 6, last year, at Birch by Romeo Lane, a nightclub in Goa's Arpora village, when it was hosting a dance party. As many as 50 people were injured in the incident.

The two brothers fled the country hours after the incident and travelled to Thailand. They were later deported back to India on December 17 and are currently in the custody of the Goa police. 

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