According to an FIR, a five-star hotel in New Delhi allegedly suffered a loss of ₹58 lakh after one of its guests enjoyed a nearly two-year-long stay in its rooms without paying any room charges, by colluding with some hotel staff.
The hotel, Roseate House in Aerocity near the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport, has lodged a case at IGI Airport police station.
According to the FIR lodged recently by Vinod Malhotra, an authorised representative of Bird Airports Hotel Private Limited, which operates Roseate, guest Ankush Dutta stayed for 603 days which cost ₹58 lakh, but checked out without paying a single penny. The FIR alleges that Prem Prakash, head of the hotel’s Front Office Department, who was authorised to decide room rates and had access to the hotel computer system to track dues of all guests, allowed Mr. Dutta’s long stay by violating the hotel norms.
