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Bookmyshow has filed a case with the police on 25 September. The company is the official ticket partner of Coldplay concerts.
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.
A lawyer has filed a complaint against Book My Show, the official ticket partner of British rock band Coldplay's Mumbai concert, for black marketing of tickets.
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.
K My Show also filed a police complaint 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 Bhaskar's revelations, on September 25, Book My Show filed a complaint against those selling fake Coldplay concert tickets.
Book My Show had issued a statement saying – Book My Show is not associated with Viagogo and Gigsberg and any third party for the sale and resale of tickets for Coldplay's Music of the Spheres World Tour 2025 in India.
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 (Economic Offenses Wing) 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 came to the app first, 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.
scaling occurs 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 seen 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 in India against counterfeiting of tickets? 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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