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Hyderabad Police Arrest Four For Black Marketing India West Indies T20I Tickets
- •Hyderabad Police arrested four individuals for black-marketing complimentary tickets for the India versus West Indies T20 International match.
- •Authorities seized 11 match passes marked Not For Sale, eight Navratri event passes, cash, mobile phones, and a two-wheeler.
- •Investigation revealed that a member of the Hyderabad Cricket Association allegedly supplied the complimentary passes to his son.
- •The accused advertised the tickets on social media platforms and sold them to buyers at exorbitant prices.
- •Police urged cricket fans to purchase tickets only through authorized channels and avoid unauthorized sellers.
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Hyderabad Police arrested four individuals for allegedly black-marketing complimentary match passes marked "NOT FOR SALE" for the fourth T20 International between India and the West Indies at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium.
Akarshit Srivastava allegedly procured the complimentary tickets from his father, Satish Chandra Srivastava, who is a member of the Hyderabad Cricket Association, and supplied them to Avinash Darak. Darak then advertised the tickets on social media with the assistance of Mohit Somani to sell them at exorbitant prices.
The Goshamahal Police registered a case against the four accused under Sections 112(1) and 318(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita alongside Section 21(gg) of the CP Act. All four suspects were subsequently remanded to judicial custody.
