Dainik Bhaskar had conducted a sting operation and exposed the black marketing of the Coldplay concert to be held in January 2025. Tickets worth Rs 3500 for the concert are being sold for Rs 70,000. A complaint was filed against the Book My Show app in this matter some time back. Now the Book My Show app has filed a complaint against many people who are illegally selling tickets at high prices through Instagram and fake websites. Pooja Nimish Mishra (38), General Manager of the Law Department of Book My Show’s Andheri office, has filed a complaint against many fake sellers on 2 October. She alleges that for the past several days she has been receiving complaints through e-mail that tickets for the Coldplay concert are being sold at arbitrary prices from fake websites. She has also received several screenshots, which include numbers and chats of about 27 people who are selling tickets. In a report by Mid Day, citing police officials, Book My Show had received an email from a man named Ashwin some time ago, who demanded several tickets and said that he had taken money from many people in the name of tickets and had assured to give tickets. However, the persons associated with the app refused to give them tickets. In another mail, a man named Arjun has sent screenshots of some WhatsApp chats, in which black marketing of tickets is taking place. In that mail, there is also mention of many Instagram accounts, including 27 blackmarketers, who are selling tickets. Book My Show filed a complaint on September 25
Earlier on September 25, Book My Show had filed a complaint against those selling fake tickets of Coldplay concert and 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. Book My Show app also accused of fraud of Rs 500 crore
BYJM (Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha) has also registered a complaint with EOW accusing Book My Show of fraud. Book My Show is accused that its management has done 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 first to the people coming on the app, however the app prepared a special link for blackmarketing agents, so that they could buy tickets and sell them at higher prices. At the same time, ticket buyers 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 fraud. Statements of the CEO and COO of the app recorded
In this case, EOW has recorded the statements of Book My Show CEO, co-founder Ashish Hemarjani and COO Anil Makhija. Coldplay’s performance in India after 9 years
The Coldplay band performed at the Golden Citizen Festival held in Mumbai in 2016. 80 thousand people were a part of this show, including 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 Grammy Awards 7 times
The Coldplay band started in London in the year 1997. Chris Martin, Johnny Buckland, Guy Berryman, Will Champion and Phil Harvey are the members of this band. Coldplay has won Grammy Awards 7 times in 39 nominations. ___________________________________________________ Also read these news related to this matter… Coldplay Concert – Dainik Bhaskar bought a ticket worth Rs 3,500 for Rs 70,000, the fraudster said – tell me how many you want British musical band Coldplay’s India concert is going to be held in January 2025. Its online ticket window was opened two days ago. All the tickets were sold out within a few minutes. The ticket selling site Book My Show crashed. Dainik Bhaskar’s team did a sting operation. The sting operation revealed that there has been manipulation of tickets on a large scale. The tickets which are not available on the site, are easily being sold outside at 10 to 15 times the price. Read full news… Coldplay Concert – 1.3 crore logins for 1.5 lakh tickets of the band, booking site crashes The site and app of Book My Show, which is selling tickets for the India concert of British rock band Coldplay, crashed on Sunday. Tickets for the concert to be held on 19 and 20 January next year at Mumbai’s DY Stadium started selling at 12 noon on Sunday. There were about 1.5 lakh tickets priced from ?3,500 to ?35,000, for which 1.3 crore people logged in simultaneously to buy them. This caused the server to crash. Read full news…
