Chandigarh, March 28: A Mohali-based software engineer was today arrested for black-marketing the tickets of the high-octane cricket World Cup semifinal between India and Pakistan, police said.
The cyber cell of the city police found the accused, identified as Mandeep Singh Bhangu (27), selling the Rs 250 ticket at a whopping price of Rs 30,000 through online shopping website E-bay.com, police said in a statement.
Bhangu was offering five tickets of Rs. 250 each at an exaggerated price which was around 100 times more than the actual price of the ticket, the police said.
The accused invited the bids for the sale of tickets on the E-bay website. He wrote in a message- “Life time opportunity to watch the Clash of Titans in World Cup Semifinal. This is it, the best match ever to happen in history of Cricket.
—pti