Mumbai: The financial offences wing (EOW) of Mumbai police, probing a grievance filed by a lawyer over an alleged ticket fraud in Coldplay‘s live performance, on Monday recorded the assertion of Anil Makhija, chief working officer of Massive Tree Leisure, the mother or father firm of BookMyShow, for 4 hours. Police have summoned him once more on Oct 2.
The EOW had issued summons to Massive Tree Leisure’s chief govt officer Ashish Hemrajani and its technical head, asking them to seem earlier than police on Saturday, however neither of them turned up then.Police stated as an alternative of Hemrajani, Makhija appeared earlier than the EOW on Monday. A police officer stated Makhija was questioned for 4 hours and he arrived with none doc. “We have now requested him to return once more with paperwork on Oct 2.”
Advocate Amit Vyas has alleged that BookMyShow and Dwell Nation logged real followers out of the portal and deployed bots to create a synthetic digital queue, thereby orchestrating black-marketing of tickets.
In the meantime, NCP (SP)’s Jitendra Awhad alleged the live performance’s organisers and “the proprietor of BookMyShow” are concerned within the alleged fraud. “Taking part in with the feelings of youths isn’t factor.”
