MUMBAI: The Financial Offences Wing (EOW) of the Mumbai police, probing the grievance filed by a lawyer towards BookMyShow and Stay Nation over Coldplay ticket fraud, have summoned the Chief Government Officer of Large Tree Leisure Non-public Restricted (BookMyShow), Ashish Hemrajani, and the technical head of the corporate.
An official confirmed they’ve prima facie summoned these two officers of their ongoing probe into the blackmarketing of tickets for the Coldplay live performance, which can be held at DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai in January.
“Within the ongoing preliminary inquiry, we now have summoned these two officers to affix the investigations on Saturday. We are going to document their assertion on lawyer Amit Vyas’s grievance.”
The allegations centre across the ticket gross sales for the three-day occasion scheduled for January 2025 on the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai, tickets for which went reside on Sunday, Sept 22, on BookMyShow – the official ticketing accomplice for the British band’s India exhibits.
Vyas has filed a grievance with the EOW, accusing BookMyShow and Stay Nation Leisure of orchestrating a large ticket rip-off linked to Coldplay’s India live performance. He has alleged that it’s a clear-cut case and therefore police ought to register an offence beneath a number of sections of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, for dishonest, prison conspiracy, and prison breach of belief.
In response to the allegations, BookMyShow earlier this week launched an announcement denying any involvement with resale platforms Viagogo and Gigsberg, clarifying that they don’t collaborate with third-party sellers for Coldplay’s ‘Music of the Spheres’ tour in India. The corporate strongly condemned ticket scalping, and confirmed it had lodged its personal grievance with legislation enforcement.
