Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra built their hospitality empire with speed, glamour, and loud self-promotion — appearing on “40 under 40” lists and celebrating awards for redefining India’s nightlife.
But when 25 people lost their lives in the devastating fire at their Goa nightclub, Birch by Romeo Lane, their empire of glitz was stripped bare — revealing a reality far less flattering.
Instead of staying back to take responsibility for the lives lost, the Luthra brothers slipped out of India like fugitives.
Just hours after the blaze erupted on the night of December 6, they boarded a flight from Delhi to Phuket at 5:30 AM on December 7 — a calculated escape that authorities saw as an “intent to evade probe.”
When the fire ripped through the nightclub Birch by Romeo Lane late on the night of December 6, claiming the lives of 25 people, including tourists and staff, the hospitality empire of the brothers Saurabh Luthra and Gaurav Luthra — once hailed for transforming India’s nightlife with flashy clubs and rooftop bars — began to collapse.
Instead of staying back to face the grief, the outrage, the investigations, and the families of the victims — instead of owning up to the responsibility of lives lost under their watch — the Luthra brothers chose to skip the country.
Police records show that by 5:30 a.m. on December 7, barely hours after the tragedy, both had boarded an IndiGo flight from Delhi to Phuket, Thailand, evidently determined to avoid probing, questioning, and accountability.
Authorities, shocked by their sudden escape, issued a Look Out Circular and sought international help from Interpol; a Blue Corner Notice has now been issued to trace the fugitives in foreign jurisdictions.
While the brothers’ social-media message expressed “profound grief” and promised “full cooperation and support” to the bereaved families, their flight tells a different story of cold calculation.
In seeking escape, they abandoned not only a building burning with flames but also the moral and legal burden of 25 lives gone.
Their decision underlines how — for them — the empire was always about money and expansion, not human lives. In doing so, they exposed the emptiness behind the glitz of their brand and traded accountability for evasion.
This is not just a tale of a tragic fire. It is a story of fugitives who chose flight over responsibility, and a reminder that when lives are lost, profits can’t absolve guilt.
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