Gurgaon: Oyo Rooms and the three group companies have been ordered for fraud and criminal conspiracy.
Online travel aggregator, which took the guesthouse in sector 51 on rent for operation, was accused of deceiving the owner of the RS 5 Crore by manipulating ordering records.
Oyo has denied the allegations as “old business disagreements”.
“We’ve been in the process of formal arbitration.
We hope to immediately come to a mutually agreed solution.
We are really clear that we have been fair and transparent in our transactions and compliance by all means,” Toi spokesman said.
FIR Against Oyo, in fact, registered at the Sector Police Station 50 on complaints from Eneskay Hospitality Pvt Ltd has a guesthouse in the Mayfield Garden Township in Sector 51.
According to an agreement with an online travel aggregator, Eneskay should receive from the OYO Company Oyo Group Alcott Town Planner PVT Ltd.
Part of online travel aggregator income from booking after deducting the Commission.
However, in his complaint, Eneskay claimed that Oyo began manipulating booking records and embezzling funds from the sale of rooms, and food & drinks.
“They made account statements and gave us a different sales figure,” said the complaint.
Deciphering about fraud, the reporter alleges that Oyo is accustomed to booking rooms with eneskay at a lower price in the name of the three group companies but gives the same thing to guests at a higher price, so it gets a profit of the differential amount.
Similar practices are adopted in food bills.
Eneskay detects fraud during random checks.
“Property owners are stored in darkness about daily affairs.
Oyo also collects GST and service taxes from their customers but do not save it the same,” according to complaints.
In addition, Oyo was also accused of using additional space without the consent of the building owner.
“Only 31 rooms were given to Oyo for sales purposes but we found that it was not permitted to use 34 rooms, causing financial losses to us,” Eneskay said in police complaints.
Based on complaints, a case registered at Oyo Rooms, also known as Oyo Hotels and Homes Pvt Ltd, and its group company – Alcott City Planner, Myprefered Transformation and Hospitality Pvt Ltd and Oravel Stays Pvt Ltd (Criminal Conspiracy)), 406 (criminal trust violations ), 420 (cheating), 467 & 468 (forgery).