MUMBAI: A Mumbai-based actress Kaseesshree Khandelwal who had visited the beach shack by Romeo Lane in North Goa, where a devasting fire killed nearly 25 guests and injured several others, has come forward to speak about the mis-management and over crowding at the now infamous night club.
The 24-year-old Kaseesshree Khandelwal had visited the same place where the fire took place a couple of months ago with a friend, where she was pushed around by a crowd of unruly drunk males.
The shack owned by the Delhi-based Luthra brothers, was over crowded and filled to the brim. Yet more and more people were being allowed in and no attempts at crowd control were made by the managemennt, Kaseesshree Khandelwal told this reporter.
“It was horribly crowded. I visited the venue two months ago, with a friend when I was in Goa. It was really “suffocating” and filled with a majority of males. The crowd was rowdy and boisterous. I was pushed around and even molested by a crowd of males who were totally drunk, unruly and loud. The men kept pushing me and even touched my behind a few times. There was no place to stand or move. When we complained to the staff and management, they threw up their hands and said they could do nothing due to the crowd. We asked them why more guests were being allowed entry when the place was already packed to maximum capacity, and one of the bouncers abused me and my friend in filthy language. Since we didn’t want a fight, I nudged my friend and we left the place immediately as we didn’t want to spoil our evening by getting into a fight,” Kaseesshree Khandelwal told this reporter.
Another woman, identified as Vaibhav Chandel – a resident of Mumbai who visited the club on November 1 – has alleged that the club’s staff spoke rudely, behaved inappropriately, and hit them with rods. She also described the club as “suffocating”, adding that it had only one entry and exit.
“When we tried to apologise and leave, he called all the security personnel, the bouncers. They started chasing us and raised their hands at us. Since it was tough to leave that club, they chased us down and hit people in groups. They hit my sister on the chest, pushed her so badly that she fell down the stairs. They put up a barricade at the entry gate so we couldn’t leave. When my brother removed it, a bouncer ran towards him with a rod and started hitting him badly,” Chandel said.
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