PANAJI: As more and more skeletons tumble out of the Goa Romeo Lane club’s closets, it has come to light that the club operators used a forged land agreement and faked or fraudulent documents to run the club. Sources told this reporter that a local political strongman and a Goan hotelier were benami partners or promoters of the club, although their names do not appear anywhere in any paperwork. It was because of them that the club was able to operate with impunity, in spite of all the illegalities.
A village panchayat official on condition of anonymity alleged that a coastal political godfather who runs several establishments in the belt is the real brain behind the club and the Luthra brothers were brought in as frontmen and investors.
The big question on the lips of every Goan today is – how did the Village Panchayat, the local MLA, the local police and the Goa administration in general not know about all these illegalities or did they all know and turn and blind eye or were they “managed” to look the other way?
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According to a Hindustan Times report, the Delhi-based entrepreneurs Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra allegedly applied for permission to open their club in Goa’s Arpora using a forged copy of a land agreement, Goa police claimed Friday, adding that the investigators will confront the brothers about this revelation when they receive custody early next week.
“Our initial inquiries revealed that the nightclub owners submitted a bogus agreement in order to claim ownership of the land when applying for permissions. We are cross checking the documents as part of the ongoing investigation,” a police official part of the investigation, who declined to be quoted since he was not authorised to speak to the media told Hindustan Times.
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A dispute between land owners is currently ongoing before a civil court in Goa. The original landowner, a local Goan, Pradeep Ghadi Amonkar has claimed that he had signed a sale agreement with one Surinder Kumar Khosla in 2004, but it was withdrawn within six months as he did not make the payment for the property. Kholsa illegally set up a nightclub on the land, and it was later taken over by the Delhi-based Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra, the present owners of Birch by Romeo Lane. The land is owned by Amonkar and all the documents submitted were fraudulent and fake, police have claimed.
In addition to the several complaints against the club and its management, two Mumbai-based women Simranpreet Kaur Arora (Read Here) and Kaseesshree Khandelwal (Read Here) have come forward to narrate their ordeals and the scope of cheating or fradulent activity by touts and the club management.
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