India, Jan. 28 -- A medical report and preliminary investigations showed that a woman had fallen sick because of the food she ate at five-star hotel in central Delhi, a day after a first information report (FIR) was lodged in the case, police said on Tuesday.

The Medical Legal Certificate (MLC), seen by HT, said that the woman fell sick after eating the hotel food which "could be poisonous". Police also said that doctors suspect that the food the woman consumed might have been "tampered with".

Still, it could not be immediately established if the incident was deliberate or accidental.

"We don't know what was added to the food or if something was wrong. The woman is yet to give her final statement," a senior police officer told HT. Poli...