Delhi: Man dupes five-star hotel of ₹58 lakh. Here's how he carried out the 'criminal conspiracy'

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A five-star hotel in Delhi has recently reported a significant loss of 58 lakh as caused due to an alleged collusion between one of their guests and certain hotel staff members..

The hotel, Roseate House in Aerocity near the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport, has lodged a case at IGI Airport police station..

A criminal conspiracy was hatched by guest Mr Ankush Dutta along with some known and unknown hotel staff, including Mr Prem Prakash with a motive to gain wrongfully and deprive the hotel of its rightful dues," the FIR said..

In pursuance of the said conspiracy, the alleged staff of the hotel forged, deleted, added accounts entries and falsified a large number of entries in the account of the said guest Ankush Dutta in the Opera software system of the hotel," it added..

The scrutiny of record of the alleged officials of the hotel revealed that they created several fake and false pending bills to benefit Ankush Dutta by adopting various ways like by removing room nights from his bills, transferring his debits into the bills of other guests bills, using settled bills of other guests by incorporating his name in the bill, etc," the FIR said..