BookMyShow CEO Ashish Hemrajani has been referred to as for questioning at present over Coldplay live performance tickets
New Delhi:
BookMyShow chief govt officer and co-founder Ashish Hemrajani and the corporate’s technical head have been issued recent summons over the alleged black advertising of tickets for the live performance by British rock band Coldplay. The Mumbai Police’s Financial Offences Wing (EOW), which had earlier referred to as them for questioning on Saturday, has now requested them to seem earlier than an investigating officer at present.
In response to sources, each of them should not in contact with the police.
The police have initiated a probe on the criticism of an advocate, Amit Vyas, who accused the ticketing platform of facilitating the black advertising of tickets for the Coldplay live performance at Navi Mumbai’s DY Patil Stadium from January 19 to 21 subsequent yr.
Mr Vyas has alleged that Coldplay’s India tour tickets, which had been initially priced at Rs 2,500, are being resold by third events and influencers for as a lot as Rs 3 lakh.
He alleged that BookMyShow deceived the general public and Coldplay followers, and is in search of a case to be registered in opposition to the corporate on fraud prices.
The police have already recorded Mr Vyas’ assertion and have recognized a number of brokers concerned within the alleged ticket scalping.
BookMyShow had crashed when the sale of tickets for Coldplay’s India live performance started on September 22.
The British rock band, which is returning to India after an eight-year hiatus, had then added a 3rd present to the Mumbai leg of the “Music of the Spheres World Tour 2025”.
BookMyShow On Coldplay’s India Live performance
As the difficulty of “pretend” tickets for the Coldplay live performance snowballed, the BookMyShow mentioned it has no affiliation with any unauthorised ticket-selling or reselling platforms and has additionally filed a police criticism.
The ticketing platform additionally claimed that it took a variety of steps to make sure that all real followers had a good likelihood to safe tickets for the British pop-rock band’s concert events and warned in opposition to shopping for passes from unauthorised sources, saying that they could be invalid or pretend.
“With 13 million (1.3 crore) followers desperate to get tickets and logged in, feelings ran excessive on September 22 on BookMyShow for Coldplay’s Music Of The Spheres World Tour 2025 in India. At BookMyShow, we have labored arduous to make sure each fan had a good likelihood to safe tickets, capping it at 4 tickets per consumer throughout all reveals, offering clear, step-by-step reserving guides and sustaining clear communication by all our official channels,” a BookMyShow spokesperson mentioned.
The corporate mentioned the queueing system was put in place to handle the excessive demand and whereas that will have brought about a quick delay, it ensured “minimal disruption” for real followers. It additionally identified {that a} third present was added, which received an amazing response.
“It got here to our discover nonetheless that unauthorised platforms listed – and are persevering with to listing – tickets…each earlier than and after the official sale. BookMyShow has no affiliation with any such unauthorised ticket promoting/reselling platforms together with however not restricted to Viagogo and Gigsberg or third-party people for the aim of reselling Coldplay’s Music Of The Spheres World Tour 2025 in India,” the spokesperson mentioned.
The spokesperson added that BookMyShow opposes the follow of scalping and black-marketing of tickets, which is punishable by regulation, and mentioned that the corporate has filed a criticism with the police.
“We now have not solely filed a criticism with the police authorities however are additionally proactively working with them to offer full assist within the investigation of this matter in any method which may be required. To our shoppers, we wish to reiterate that any tickets purchased from unauthorised sources will likely be at their very own danger and will seemingly be invalid or pretend tickets,” the spokesperson warned.