The metropolis police had not too long ago arrested 5 individuals and seized eight tickets.
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A public curiosity litigation petition has been filed in the Madras High Court looking for a route to the Greater Chennai Commissioner of Police and Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) to take stringent motion against those that promote Indian Premier League (IPL) tickets in the black market.
The PIL has been listed for admission earlier than the primary Division Bench of Chief Justice Sanjay V. Gangapurwala and Justice D. Bhratha Chakravarthy on Friday. Advocate A. Sathiya Prakash had filed the PIL complaining that the black market prevents a standard cricket fan from watching the matches.
His affidavit acknowledged that cricket is essentially the most beloved sport in the nation and the followers in Chennai vie to get a possibility to look at the matches carried out on the M.A. Chidambaram Cricket Stadium at Chepauk. However, of late, buying tickets for a good value was changing into a herculean process, he rued.
He mentioned although TNCA sells tickets on-line, the reserving closes in no time and people who handle to buy them find yourself promoting these tickets at exorbitant charges to the die arduous followers of the game. This results in disparity with those that can’t afford such excessive charges being not capable of benefit from the matches.
Claiming that a large black market mafia was working behind the sale of IPL tickets in Chennai, he mentioned, the town police had not too long ago arrested 5 individuals and seized eight tickets, for the IPL match between Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Royal Challengers Bengaluru on March 22, in addition to money of ₹31,500 from them.
It was discovered that the tickets had been being offered in black for 10 occasions the precise value and even the decrease stand tickets had been offered for an exorbitant value of ₹14,000 to ₹16,000, he mentioned and relied upon information reviews of the police having arrested 24 individuals on March 27 for a similar offence.
The arrested had been discovered to be promoting tickets in black for the CSK versus Gujarat Titans match held in Chennai on March 26. The police had seized 83 tickets and ₹18,000 in money from them. Therefore, there was an pressing want to search out out your complete nexus behind the black market, the petitioner insisted.
