A woman has filed a complaint against the JW Marriott Hotel in New Delhi’s Aerocity, accusing the staff at the 5-star hotel of allegedly holding her hostage and berating in a dispute over the hotel bill.

In her complaint filed at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport Police Station, the 55-year-old woman, who is a legal advisor to a women business organization, claimed she was verbally berated by the JW Marriott staff and held captive with two male employees constantly keeping a watch on her and following her in the hotel and even waited outside when she went to the lavatory.

As per the FIR lodged by the police based on her complaint, the organization for which the woman works, had booked 94 rooms and halls at the JW Marriott Hotel for an event held on December 26, 2022, and had paid Rs 55 lakhs in advance.

A dispute arose over the rest of the bill amount as the organizers complained of poor service and food quality. After some disagreements, the firm paid the hotel another Rs 25 lakh on December 31 and said they would pay the rest on January 1, 2023, after checking all the bills and adjusting the advance amount.

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The woman in her complaint alleged that her organization found some discrepancies in the room tariff and had sought time to check the bills thoroughly as it had already paid 80 per cent of the bill.

She said that her firm had booked 30 rooms till January 1 and asked the hotel that they would pay the rest of the amount by that date after checking the bills for discrepancies. However, she claimed that the hotel staff allegedly held her and some other organisers hostage and didn’t allow them to leave the premises until they pay the rest of the bill.

The woman said she only managed to get out of the predicament with the help of an officer from Delhi Police who was dispatched to her aid after she dialed 1901, their helpline number for women in distress.

She claimed that the hotel staff continuously harassed her during her illegal detention and alleged that one of the chefs touched her in an inappropriate manner during the event.

Meanwhile, the JW Marriott in a statement refuted the allegations against them as baseless and said the hotel is fully cooperating with authorities in their investigation into the incident.

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The bodies of three sisters, all minors aged between 2 and 6 years, were recovered from a well in a village of Dhar district in Madhya Pradesh, officials said on Wednesday, adding that their mother is also reported missing.

According to the police, locals in Shyampura Thakur village under Sardarpur police station limits in Dhar district, found the bodies of the three little girls floating in the well on Tuesday, fished them out and later informed the cops about the incident.

Sardarpur police station in-charge Pradeep Khanna said that on Tuesday evening, they got a call from the Sarpanch (village head) informing them that the three sisters had drowned in a well in Shyampura village along with their mother.

The official said the following the information, a police team was rushed to the spot and saw that the villagers had already fished out the bodies of the three girls from the well, however, the body of their mother, Ranjana—who the villagers claimed also drowned along with her daughters—could not be found.

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The deceased sisters were identified as 6-year-old Amrita, 4-year-old Jyoti and Preeti (2), he said.

Officer Khanna said that police deployed a team of divers to search for the missing woman’s body but to no avail, adding that woman is currently considered missing, not dead.

Reports said that the woman’s husband, identified as 32-year-old Jeevan Bamniya, a resident of Khiledi village, had on Tuesday afternoon, went to meet some relative outside the village and upon returning home at around 3 pm, found his wife and three daughters missing.

According to reports, the father of these children Jeevan Bamniya (32), a resident of Khiledi village went out of the village to meet one of his relatives on Tuesday around 12 noon. He returned home around 3 pm and found his wife and three daughters missing.

After waiting for a while, Bamniya told his family members of his wife and daughters’ disappearance and went out to search for them in and around the village.

During his inquiry, locals told him that had seen the woman plucking mangoes outside the village and when the family reached the spot, they discovered the bodies of the three girls floating in the well.

After some time, the villagers told him that the woman was seen plucking mangoes outside the village. The family members reached there, and one of them noticed the bodies of three sisters floating in the well.

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Shelly Oberoi of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) was re-elected as the mayor of Delhi in the national capital’s MCD mayoral polls on Wednesday as BJP’s Shikha Rai withdrew her nomination.

Delhi elects a new mayor after the end of a financial year with the mayoral post having five single-year terms on a rotational basis.

The first year is reserved for women, the second for open category, the third is for the reserved category while the remain two posts are again for the open-merit category.

The AAP and the BJP have been in a tug of war in the national capital’s grassroots-level politics with the former defeating the later in last year’s MCD polls.

In the December 2022 MCD elections, the AAP won 134 wards while the BJP managed to secure victories in 104 of the 250 wards.

On Monday, AAP councillor from Dwarka C ward Sunita had joined the BJP in presence of the saffron party’s senior leaders, two days before the elections for the posts of mayor and deputy mayor of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD).

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Welcoming Sunita into the right-wing party’s fold, Delhi BJP chief Virendra Sachdeva attacked the AAP and claimed that the Arvind Kejriwal-led party treats common volunteers like “bonded labour” while everyone is equal in the BJP.

Sunita became the second AAP councillor to join the BJP in recent months after Pawan Sehrawat from Bawana ward switched sides in February this year.

Former AAP councillor Ram Niwas also joined the BJP along with Sunita.

Commenting on the development, West Delhi BJP MP Parvesh Verma claimed that many more from the AAP are expected to join the BJP soon as they are feeling “suffocated” in the Delhi Chief Minister’s party.

Thanking the BJP for “accepting her with open arms” Sunita said she had close ties with the BJP, particularly Parvesh Verma. The ex-AAP leader expressed her desire to work hard to strengthen the BJP at grassroot levels.

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