India, Dec. 9 -- Goa police have said that the owners of the nightclub in Arpora, where a fire killed at least 25 people around midnight on Saturday, fleeing the country to Thailand, "shows their intent" of avoiding the police investigation.

This comes after Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra, the Delhi-based owners of the Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub, fled to Phuket on an IndiGo flight at 5:30 AM on Sunday, roughly six hours after the fire tragedy began.

"The Bureau of Immigration at Mumbai was contacted, and it was found that both the accused had taken the 6E 1073 flight (New Delhi to Phuket) at 5.30 AM on 7th December, i.e. immediately after the incident, which had taken place around midnight. It shows their intent to avoid police investigat...