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Book My Show has filed a case with the police on September 25. The company is the official ticket partner of Coldplay concerts.
On September 24, Dainik Bhaskar conducted a sting operation and revealed that tickets for the Coldplay concert to be held in India are being black-marketed on a large scale. We had bought a ticket worth Rs 3500 for Rs 70 thousand in a sting operation.
After this revelation, Book My Show, the official ticket partner of the Mumbai concert of British rock band Coldplay, had filed a complaint against those selling fake tickets of the Coldplay concert.
On the other hand, a lawyer had also filed a complaint against Book My Show for black marketing of tickets.
Now, on the basis of this complaint, the Economic Offenses Wing (EOW) of Mumbai Police issued summons to Ashish Hemrajani, CEO and co-founder of Book My Show. Apart from him, summons have been issued to the CTO of the company.
According to a Mumbai Police official, investigation into the case has been started on the complaint of the lawyer. Statements of the company’s CEO and CTO will be recorded on Saturday.
Book My Show also filed a police complaint Earlier on September 25, Book My Show had filed a complaint against those selling fake Coldplay concert tickets and issued a statement saying – Book My Show is for the sale and resale of tickets for Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres World Tour 2025 in India. Not associated with Viagogo and Gigsberg and any third party.
The company had said that we strongly condemn scalping in India. There is a law to punish for doing this. We have lodged a complaint with the police. Will provide full cooperation in the investigation of the case.
Book My Show has appealed to people to avoid such scams. If someone buys a ticket from an unauthorized source, the entire risk will be his/her own. The ticket purchased may be fake.
Allegations of fraud of Rs 500 crore on Book My Show app also BYJM (Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha) has also registered a complaint with EOW accusing Book My Show of fraud. Book My Show is accused of money laundering and fraud of Rs 500 crore in the name of ticket selling.
Party member Tejinder Singh Tiwana has said that Book My Show was supposed to give tickets to the people who first visited the app, however, the app created a special link for blackmarketing agents, so that they could buy tickets and sell them at expensive prices. . Those who bought tickets were put in a virtual queue, due to which they could not book tickets. Book My Show app has earned Rs 500 crore from this rigging.
He has also said that this is not the first case of ticket blackmarketing. Before this, black marketing of tickets has also taken place during the World Cup and IPL. On sites like Viagogo, a ticket worth Rs 12500 was being sold for Rs 3 lakh.
Stage-audience arrangement layout and ticket rates for Coldplay’s DY Patil Stadium concert.
What is scaling? Scalping means buying event and music concert tickets in bulk. After this, when people do not get the tickets, then the same tickets are sold to them at an expensive price.
There is no data on tickets that are bought or sold in the black. This is straight up tax evasion. The government suffers a lot from this. The government is shown selling tickets at low rates, while outside they are sold at much higher rates.
Apart from this, common people never get tickets for such events because the tickets are already sold in black. Those who have money can easily buy tickets at high prices, but common people are deprived of it.
There is no specific law regarding counterfeiting of tickets in India. Is there any law against counterfeiting of tickets in India? Dainik Bhaskar contacted lawyer Ali Kashif Khan Deshmukh to know the answer. He said, ‘There is no specific law to ban black marketing of tickets for entertainment other than cinema tickets.
At present, only sections 406, 420 of IPC or provisions of BNS and IT Act are applicable in this case. Therefore, the government should make a concrete law to stop such illegal activities.
Former ACP Mumbai Vasant Dhoble said that if fraudsters are saying such things against Book My Show then they should come forward and give clarification. Keeping their complaint in mind, action can be taken.
Coldplay had also performed in Mumbai in 2016. The band is coming to India again after 9 years.
Coldplay’s performance in India after 9 years Coldplay band performed at the Golden Citizen Festival held in Mumbai in 2016. 80 thousand people became a part of this show, which included many Bollywood celebs. Now after 9 years the band is coming to India again. Coldplay’s songs Hymn for the Weekend, Yellow, Fix You are very popular in India.
Started in London, won 7 Grammy Awards Coldplay band was started in the year 1997 in London. Chris Martin, Jonny Buckland, Guy Barryman, Will Champion and Phil Harvey are members of this band. Coldplay has received the Grammy Award 7 times in 39 nominations.
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