US travel vlogger shares ordeal of harassment at Delhi hotel as male staff 'patrol' outside her room

A Delhi-based hotel has been shut down after a viral video shared by a popular American video blogger highlighted how she was sexually harassed by the hotel staff.

The video, shared by the woman has already been seen over 1.5 lakh times since it was published on September 8.

In the 18-minute-long video, the woman has claimed that she was held hostage in her room as men constantly lurked outside, repeatedly asking her to open the door.

"The hotel where I was trapped in the room was OYO Hotel on Main Bazaar Road, Delhi," she said, adding that the Hotel Lalit in Connaught Place had given out her room number to men who had been staling her, and action had been taken against that hotel as well.

OYO rooms, under whose name the hotel functions, and through whose website the woman booked the room, responded to the video which was shared by Reddit India. "Guest safety is our top priority and will take the strictest of action against the partner hotel involved in this incident. Appreciate your concern," OYO's official Twitter handle replied.

The woman added that she was lucky to escape in the middle of the night to the airport after she realised that the staff had stopped knocking on her door. After putting up the video, and OYO Room's reaction, she shared this update on her YouTube page, "GREAT NEWS UPDATE!! Within 24 hours of releasing this, the hotel where this happened was SHUT DOWN by upper management in the chain. It came out that this has happened to other women who stayed there in the past as well! NO MORE. Action has been taken! A police investigation is currently underway about what happened," she wrote.

She ends the video saying that on the whole, she had a great time in India before all this happened.