The brothers were detained by the Royal Thai Police from their Phuket hotel on 11 December and shifted to a detention centre in Bangkok.

A team of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Goa Police have arrived in Bangkok, Thailand, and are hopeful of securing custody of the fugitive Luthra brothers — Saurabh and Gaurav, who fled to Phuket hours after the December 5 blaze at their illegal nightclub killed 25 people — by Tuesday, a Goa government official said.

“We hope to have custody of the brothers at least by Tuesday. Their deportation process is underway and we are in close coordination with the CBI and the Thai authorities to secure their custody after the completion of deportation formalities,” said a Goa Police official familiar with the investigation.

The brothers were

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