Coldplay tickets for $11,000? Uproar in India after tickets sold out in minutes and resold for outrageously high prices

. Fans eagerly awaiting the return of Coldplay to India were shocked to find tickets being resold online for as much as $11,000, prompting police to seek a statement from the CEO of the shows vendor over allegations of fraud.. ..

The British rock band is playing three shows in Mumbai in January as part of its hugely popular Music Of The Spheres tour, its first concerts in the country since 2016.. . Tickets were scheduled to go on sale by the official vendor, BookMyShow (BMS),at 12 p.m. local time on September 22..

On Monday, the founder and CEO of BookMyShow, Ashish Hemjarani, was summoned by Mumbai polices Economic Offences Wing for questioning over the alleged black marketing of tickets for the concerts, a Mumbai police official said.. ..

In a statement on X, BookMyShow said it had no association with any ticket selling or reselling platforms, as well as third party individuals for the purpose of reselling of the bands shows in India, and that it had also filed a complaint with police..

We have filed a complaint with the police authorities and will provide complete support to them in the investigation of this matter, the vendor said.. . . Coldplay fans told CNN their attempts to buy tickets to Januarys shows at DY Patil Stadium in Mumbai left them frustrated and disappointed.. . Arkatapa Basu, a 26-year-old journalist based in the southern city of Bengaluru, said she was waiting behind 130,000 people to buy tickets when she learned a third show had been added.. ..

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