The lawyer who filed a police grievance towards BookMyShow and different promoters of Coldplay live performance in Navi Mumbai has approached the Bombay Excessive Court docket with a Public Curiosity Litigation (PIL) in search of route to the Centre and Maharashtra authorities to border stringent pointers to forestall black advertising of tickets for main occasions.
Lawyer Amit Vyas was unable to safe tickets for a live performance by the famend British rock band scheduled for January 2025. In his petition dated October 19, he requested that authorities create laws to handle ticket scalping, touting, and black advertising for main occasions till particular legal guidelines and guidelines might be established to fight these practices.
Advocate Ankita Singhania, representing Vyas, talked about the PIL earlier than a bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Amit Borkar on Monday. The bench posted the matter after the court docket’s Diwali trip. “There’s already an enquiry initiated (by authorities). This PIL can wait,” the bench orally remarked. The excessive court docket is more likely to hear the PIL on November 11.
Vyas sought that an professional committee led by a former excessive court docket decide, together with cyber specialists, research and suggest measures required to regulate and regulate the sale of on-line tickets for main occasions, “preserving in thoughts the ideas of parity, proper to public leisure, tax implications”, amongst different components, within the curiosity of the general public at massive attending such occasions.
Pending a report by an professional panel, the PIL additionally sought a monitoring committee led by a former excessive court docket decide to take measures primarily based on rapid session and advice of authorities to make sure the efficient implementation and upkeep of ample safety measures for the web ticketing system of main occasions.
It additionally sought route from reserving platforms comparable to BookMyShow and occasion promoters Stay Nation Leisure, Massive Tree Leisure, and Viagogo Leisure, amongst others, to cooperate with professional and monitoring panels.
The PIL urged that such corporations present the required info, together with ticketing rights contracts and buyer account particulars, and in addition present entry to servers of such info as per the panels’ request relating to the sale of Coldplay live performance tickets that befell on September 22 this yr in order that the panels can look at the identical.
It additional sought a report of the monitoring committee if irregularities and illegalities had been discovered throughout the September 22 sale of the Coldplay live performance and instructions for reconvening the web sale of tickets that had been illegally acquired.
