Updated on Oct 11, 6.00 p.m.

The Ahmedabad crime branch caught four accused involved in the black marketing of duplicate tickets today.

The crime branch team seized duplicate tickets and 24 printed pages of fake tickets.

The accused have photocopied bogus tickets worth ₹2000. A total of 108 duplicate tickets for the India-Pakistan match have also been seized during the proceedings.

The most-awaited match of the ICC World Cup, India vs Pakistan, is all set to be hosted in Ahmedabad with a thrill of cricket and Navratri festivities on Oct 14. With every passing hour, the demand for already-sold tickets is rising, but the scam of black market tickets has overshadowed the excitement.

Fake-tickets floating everywhere

The tickets are floating both online and offline, where a ticket worth ₹2,000 is being sold at the elevated cost of ₹20,000 and a ticket that costs ₹10,000 is now being sold at ₹1,00,000, say reports.

Moreover, cases of online fraud has also been reported due to the online sale of the tickets, as observed on social media. Scammers extorted money from cricket enthusiasts by selling fake online tickets. 

Pricing of fake-tickets

With a mere three days to go for the much-hyped match, both online and offline tickets have been sold out. Although many individuals have sold tickets illicitly at high prices, by selling tickets worth ₹2,000 at somewhere between ₹15,000 and ₹22,000. Similarly, ₹2,500 worth tickets are sold at ₹30,000, tickets worth ₹3,500 are selling at ₹35,000, ₹4,000 worth tickets are sold at ₹40,000, and the black market prices went as high as ₹1,00,000.

One of the sellers involved in the illicit selling of tickets said, “As the match is only three days away, the black market rate of these tickets may increase up to ₹5,000. This way, thousands of tickets have been sold on the black market. However, the police have been unable to stop the racket.”

One of the victims who fell for the fake-ticket scam said, “I was offered a ticket of ₹2,000 for one person near the stadium for ₹8,000. At that time, the price of the ticket in the black market was up to ₹15,000, so I bought this ticket as the amount was less than ₹8,000. However, when I scanned the QR code, I realised that the ticket was fake.”

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