Minor girl rape case: HC rejects hotel owner’s bail application

‘He facilitated crime by running hotel without valid licence’

The Delhi High Court has rejected anticipatory bail to a man in whose hotel a 16-year-old girl was raped multiple times for four days, noting that he facilitated the crime by running the hotel without a valid licence or maintaining guest list. Justice Rajnish Bhatnagar observed that the man, who is the owner of the hotel and resides at the same place, cannot say that he was not aware of what was going on in his hotel and he cannot put the entire blame on the staffer of the hotel. According to the victim, she was kept in the hotel for about four days where she was repeatedly raped by another man.