Coldplay concert ticket case: BookMyShow CEO, technical head summoned again today

The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Mumbai Police issued caller summons to Ashish Hemrajani, CEO of Big Tree Entertainment, the genitor institution of BookMyShow, and the company's method head, to look for questioning connected Monday successful transportation with an probe into the alleged achromatic selling of British stone set Coldplay's performance tickets.

Hemrajani and the method caput were issued summons for the 2nd clip aft they failed to look for questioning connected September 27. However, the constabulary said that some of them haven't contacted the constabulary yet successful this regard.

The probe was initiated pursuing a ailment filed by Advocate Amit Vyas accusing the ticketing level of facilitating the achromatic selling of tickets for the highly anticipated Coldplay performance scheduled to beryllium held connected January 18, 19 and 21, 2025, astatine DY Patil Stadium successful Navi Mumbai.

Following this, BookMyShow issued a connection connected Saturday, clarifying their basal and enactment taken to guarantee just ticketing.

"With 13 cardinal (1.3 crore) fans anxious to get tickets and logged in, emotions ran precocious connected September 22nd connected BookMyShow for Coldplay's 'Music Of The Spheres' World Tour 2025 successful India. At BookMyShow, we've worked hard to guarantee each instrumentality had a just accidental to unafraid tickets, capping it astatine 4 tickets per idiosyncratic crossed each shows, providing clear, step-by-step booking guides and maintaining transparent connection done each our authoritative channels," a BookMyShow spokesperson clarified.

BookMyShow addressed the unauthorised merchantability of tickets and mentioned, "It came to our announcement nevertheless that unauthorised platforms listed (and are continuing to list) tickets for Coldplay's Music Of The Spheres World Tour 2025 successful India, some earlier and aft the authoritative sale. BookMyShow has nary relation with immoderate specified unauthorised summons selling/reselling platforms including but not constricted to Viagogo and Gigsberg oregon third-party individuals for the intent of reselling Coldplay's Music Of The Spheres World Tour 2025 successful India."

Condemning the achromatic selling of tickets, the connection added, "Scalping and achromatic selling of tickets is strictly condemned and punishable by instrumentality successful India and BookMyShow vehemently opposes this practice. We person not lone filed a ailment with the constabulary authorities but are besides proactively moving with them to supply implicit enactment successful the probe of this substance successful immoderate mode that whitethorn beryllium required. To our consumers, we would similar to reiterate that immoderate tickets bought from unauthorised sources volition beryllium astatine their ain hazard and whitethorn apt beryllium invalid oregon fake tickets."

On September 18, Coldplay announced their 'Music of the Sphere' World Tour, wherever they initially were going to execute 2 shows successful DY Patil Stadium successful Mumbai but added an other amusement connected January 21 pursuing precocious demand.