New Delhi, March 06: A sting operation carried out by a news channel at the Hockey World Cup venue here today purportedly showed a policeman on camera selling tickets in the black market, prompting police to initiate an inquiry into it.
The channel showed a policeman identified as Rohtash posted outside Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium allegedly selling tickets — Rs500 tickets for Rs1,000 and Rs100 tickets for Rs500.
The incident was captured minutes before the scheduled match between India and Spain on Thursday. The footage shows the policeman taking people inside the stadium without any checks so that he could sell them the tickets, the channel claimed.
“Rohtash sold tickets Rs500 ticket for Rs1000 and Rs100 tickets for Rs 500. What was even more shocking was that other policemen did not seem at all bothered by their colleague’s actions,” it claimed.
A senior police official said they have asked the channel to submit the video footage. “We are inquiring into it. If there is some substance in it, we will take action,” the official said.
–PTI–