Instagram ad for cheap hotel room ends with Madurai-bound traveller duped

The Delhi Police have arrested a 22-year-old man for allegedly duping people on the pretext of booking cheap hotel rooms for them, officials said Wednesday.

The police said they received a complaint from a man, saying he had been cheated of Rs. 4,900 by a person who put up advertisements on Instagram claiming he can book them cheap rooms at a hotel in their destination city.

“As the complainant had to visit Madurai, he contacted the accused person regarding booking a hotel in ITC Fortune Hotel in Madurai,” said DCP(Rohini) Guriqbal Sidhu.

The complainant subsequently transferred Rs. 4900 into the account of the accused. “Later the victim went to Madurai and came to know that no hotel room has been booked in his name,” Sidhu said.