HYDERABAD: Spooked by the presence of a ‘ghost’ in a hotel room, eight members of a family ran out their lodge rooms in Old City and sought the assistance of local police on Sunday night. The tourists from Mumbai, after arriving in the city on Friday, were housed at Cozy Lodge under Hussaini Alam police limits. Taking a serious note of the incident, the police team led by a sub-inspector shifted them to another lodge.
Inspector G Shyamsundar informed that a touring family called the police station at 1.20 am and told that they were scared to stay in the lodge after they encountered paranormal activity. They claimed to have been assaulted, added the inspector. An entry in the General Diary(GD) was made by the police while no case was registered.
Syed Mustaq and Syed Ashwaq, along with their wives and children, from Mumbai, were lodged in two rooms in the hotel. They had gone to sleep by 11.30 pm on Friday.
“Assistant sub-inspector (ASI) Sadik who was on night duty visited the place and noticed the scared tourists who were waiting outside the lodge.
We shifted them to another lodge located near Goutham Model school in the same police limits,” the inspector said. Police, however, maintain that the tourists could have had a nightmare. “Our policemen verified the facts. It was revealed that their rooms were locked from inside when the incident is said to have taken place,” the inspector said.
Meanwhile, the hotel owner Md Pervez denied any paranormal activity. “The tourists were scared after the incident and policemen confirmed that nothing of that sort took place in my lodge. Once the tourists vacated the rooms, the same was allotted to new guests,” Pervez said.