In Ahmedabad, 4 held with 150 fake tickets for India-Pakistan World Cup match

An official release from the DCB stated that considering tremendous enthusiasm for watching the match between India and Pakistan at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on October 14, the Ahmedabad police commissioner had given instructions to prevent and detect any activity of making duplicate tickets and black marketing.

Based on a tip-off, the four accused were arrested from a photocopy shop, Krishna Xerox. Apart from the 150 fake tickets, the police also recovered various instruments like colour printer, computer monitor, central processing unit (CPU), pen drive, paper cutter and mobile phone worth Rs 1.98 lakh from the photocopy shop. As per the release, the police also recovered 40 fake tickets sold by the four accused.

Kush runs Krishna Xerox and the other three accused – Rajveer, Dhrumil and Jaymin – approached him to make the duplicate tickets. And Kush demanded at least one original ticket to make the duplicate tickets. Dhrumil, through his contacts, managed to get one original ticket and to make the duplicate tickets, the accused bought a colour printer.

Subsequently, Kush made duplicate tickets using the Photoshop software. Jaymin and Rajveer then sold around 40 fake tickets through their friends. As the ticket demand went up, the four started making more counterfeit tickets.

As per the release, the accused were selling the tickets for any amount starting from Rs 2,000 to more than Rs 20,000 as per the purchaser’s capacity.

“As there is a possibility of the four having sold more fake tickets and the same bought by antisocial elements and black marketeers, further investigations are on,” the DCB release said.