A new picture on Thursday, taken hours after they were arrested, showed the Luthra brothers at the Thai Immigration Control Centre with Thai officials around them. In the new picture, the two brothers are shown sitting in chairs in front of Thai officers at the Phuket Immigration Control Centre (PICC). India asked for the two brothers to be arrested in their hotel room in Thailand. Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra are wanted in India because their bar was the site of a fire that killed 25 people.
Delhi court rejects anticipatory bail plea.
Earlier that day, a Delhi court turned down Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra’s requests for transit anticipatory bail. On Wednesday, the people who were charged asked for four weeks of transit bail so they wouldn’t be caught right after returning to Delhi from Thailand. The request for bail was turned down by Additional Sessions Judge Vandana.
The Goa, India state attorney’s opposition to the pleas in court was based on the argument, “They left, they concealed, and they are now seeking leniency.” He said that the Luthra brothers left Goa right after the fire and have been “evading the legal process.”
The state lawyer said that the people who don’t obey orders or charges can’t get help from the law. He said, “Once it is shown that a person is attempting to evade the process of law, the court should not come to his aid at all,” meaning the court should not help someone who is trying to break the law. He also said that advance bail is a type of discretionary release that can be granted only to people who haven’t “created obstacles in the execution of warrants or concealed themselves.”
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CM Sawant says that Luthras will be back soon.
Earlier today, Goa’s Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said that Saurabh Luthra and Gaurav Luthra would be taken back to India from Thailand as soon as possible. Sawant said that a local panchayat official would also be arrested in the fire case because he was not helping the investigation.
He said that the Goa Police and CBI teams would bring the Luthra brothers, who are the main suspects in the case, back to India “as soon as possible.” The chief minister thanked the Union Home Ministry and the Ministry of External Affairs for speeding up the process of identifying the people found guilty in Thailand.
Goa Police issued a Look Out Circular for them, and an Interpol Blue Notice was also issued, along with a request to the Regional Passport Office to cancel their passports. Sawant said that all necessary efforts are being made to make sure that this kind of thing doesn’t happen again.
