Brothers Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra, owners of Birch by Romeo Lane, the Goa club where 25 people died in a fire late Saturday night, have allegedly left the country and are believed to be in Thailand, top police sources have said.

“Soon after the institution of an FIR, police moved swiftly and dispatched a team to Delhi to conduct raids on the addresses of the accused Gaurav and Saurabh Luthra. Since they were not available, a notice under the appropriate sections of law was pasted on their house. By the evening of December 7 (Sunday), a lookout circular (LOC) was issued against them by the Bureau of Immigration at the request of the Goa police,” a senior officer said.

“When the Bureau of Immigration at Mumbai was contacted, it was found that both the accused had taken a flight to

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