The Kolkata Police has issued a discover to BCCI searching for ticket sale info amid allegations over black advertising of tickets for the India vs South Africa match being held at Eden Gardens on Sunday at 2pm.
The discover, issued on Saturday night, requested BCCI President Roger Binny to submit paperwork at Kolkata’s Maidan police station, PTI quoted a senior officer as saying.
“A discover was despatched to the BCCI president, asking him to offer related paperwork and data concerning the sale of tickets both personally or by means of any competent individual of his organisation to the investigating officer of Maidan PS throughout working hours on Tuesday,” the officer informed PTI.
This comes after police arrested 19 folks in seven circumstances registered at completely different metropolis police stations final week. Police additionally seized 108 tickets meant for the India vs South Africa match.
The town police had earlier served notices to a web-based ticket reserving portal and Cricket Affiliation of Bengal (CAB) primarily based on a grievance that the India vs South Africa match tickets had been being black-marketed.
The primary case was lodged at Maidan police station on November 1 primarily based on a grievance that tickets for Sunday’s match had been being black-marketed “owing to the connivance of a web-based portal together with officers of the CAB and BCCI”.
The complainants alleged that sure BCCI and CAB officers, together with the reserving portal, made tickets obtainable to black-marketers.
Kolkata Police’s detective division reportedly questioned representatives of the ticket reserving portal concerning the allegations on Friday. Nonetheless, officers of the state cricket physique reportedly didn’t report back to the Maidan police stations.
“Our officers spoke with portal officers… However no CAB representatives got here,” one other officer informed PTI, including that they’ve issued yet another discover to CAB officers.
Three of the arrested folks allegedly offered a Rs 900 ticket for Rs 8,000 and 17 tickets had been seized from them, reported PTI, including {that a} case below the WB Black Advertising and marketing Act, 1948, was registered in opposition to the trio and officers of the reserving portal and CAB.
