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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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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The Municipal Corporation of Delhi is all set to elect a new Mayor and the Deputy Mayor for the new financial year on Wednesday.

The mayoral poll fight will be between the incumbent mayor from Aam Aadmi Party Shelly Oberoi and Shikha Rai from the BJP.

In the Deputy Mayor contest, one side it is the incumbent Deputy Mayor from the AAP Aaley Mohammad Iqbal and on the other hand it is Soni Pandey from the BJP.

Shelly Oberoi is the current Mayor of Delhi, she was elected to the post on February 2022 after a high voltage clash between the AAP and BJP councillors inside the house.

Oberoi won defeating BJP candidate Rekha Gupta by 34 votes as she received 150 votes while Rekha polled a total of 116 votes.

The Municipal elections of the capital were held in December last year, in which the Aam Aadmi Party marked a historical victory as it chunked the BJP out of the power in MCD, who ruled the MCD for over 15 years.

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AAP bagged 134 seats, while the BJP won 104 while the Congress managed to win 9 seats and three were held by the Independent candidates.

The fresh Mayoral poll will be held at the Civic Centre, which is the headquarters of the MCD.

The capital city gets a new Mayor after the end of every financial year which starts from 1^st April every year.

AAP which has the majority number is confident of winning.

The Mayoral post has five single year terms on rotational basis, where each year a new mayor is elected, the first year is reserved for the women, the second year is for the open category, third year is for reserved category and the remaining two year is again for open category.

The polls will be conducted under AAP’s senior most councillor Mukesh Goyal as the presiding officer.

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