Several Central Delhi hotels said on October 9 that police personnel or messages circulated among hotel owners had instructed them to refuse rooms to some guests before a planned October 10 protest at Jantar Mantar. The Indian Express reported the new claims at 8:21 pm, after speaking to staff at six hotels in Paharganj and to a couple who said hotels rejected them because their identity documents carried a Delhi address.
Managers quoted by the newspaper described different instructions. Staff at two hotels said beat officers told them not to accommodate young people or students arriving from other states and to inform police if such guests appeared. Staff at another said they were told not to take guests with Delhi-address identity documents on Friday, while another hotel referred to restrictions on large groups. These accounts do not establish a single written, citywide order, and Asal Sach did not locate a public police notification directing hotels to deny rooms on those terms.
Separate reporting confirms a broader accommodation-surveillance operation but describes its scope differently. Hindustan Times cited four police officials who said officers were checking hotel, hostel and guest-house registers, questioning people based on travel dates, group size and purpose of visit, and matching guests with booking details. One officer told the newspaper that police were making inquiries and were not stopping or detaining people in Delhi through those checks.
India Today reported at 8:49 pm that police were checking hotels and lodges around New Delhi and Central Delhi and advising operators to alert police if guests appeared to be planning to join the protest. It also reported that the protest had not been permitted, that more than 20,000 personnel were expected to be deployed and that 12 detention centres had been prepared. Those figures were attributed to police sources; they do not by themselves prove that every hotel refusal was ordered by police.
The protest was called by the Cockroach Janta Party and student groups to demand the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over disputed voter-roll revisions. Reuters reported that the Election Commission and the BJP deny opposition allegations of electoral manipulation. Delhi Police said the gathering lacked permission and participants could face legal action for violating restrictions.
The reported hotel refusals raise questions about freedom of movement, equal access to accommodation and preventive policing. This report records what hotel staff, guests and police sources said; it does not present the alleged guest-denial instructions as a court finding or verified written order. No checked source established that the hotel directions targeted Muslims or any religious community, and no religious motive is inferred.