Mumbai Police's Economic Offences Wing has summoned Ashish Hemrajani, CEO of BookMyShow's parent company, Big Tree Entertainment, over alleged black marketing of Coldplay concert tickets. The summons follows a complaint by Advocate Amit Vyas.

Coldplay's 2025 Mumbai concert tickets sold out quickly, sparking outrage as resellers demand outrageous prices.

Hemrajani was summoned to appear before the investigative officer and record statements on Saturday, September 28. The investigation began reportedly after a complaint was filed by a Mumbai -based lawyer accusing the company of conspiring to earn money from black-market tickets.

The Economic Offence Wing of the Mumbai Police has summoned BookMyShow’s parent company Big Tree Entertainment’s chief executive officer and technical head to appear before the investigative officer and record their statements on September 28.

It’s not just the ticket prices that are reaching astronomical heights, hotel rooms and flight tickets for the concert dates are also through the roof. Compared to Coldplay's last Mumbai concert in 2016,

BookMyShow had earlier said they have filed a police complaint against alleged reselling of Coldplay concert tickets

If you were in India and had 900,000 rupees ($10,800; £8,000), what would you buy? A car? A trip around the world? Diamond jewellery? Or a Coldplay concert ticket? The British rock band is set to perform three shows of their Music of the Spheres world tour in Mumbai next year and the tickets are being sold for obscene amounts on reselling platforms,

Mumbai Police summoned the CEO Ashish Hemrajani and a senior team member of BookMyShow played a major role during the Coldplay concert ticket selling. The ticket booking platform has been accused of black marketing of tickets for shows of British rock bands.