Cricket lovers cheated in Gujarat with fake tickets

Black marketeers and sellers of counterfeit tickts had a field day as India and Pakistan clashed in the ICC World Cup match on Saturday, Chandrashekhar Thakur, who came all the way from Chhattisgarh with the hope to get tickets for him and his brother, was cheated with fake tickets for which they coughed up Rs 10,000.

They bought the tickets from a man but were stopped from entering the stadium as they were fake. 

On Friday, Anandnagar police registered a complaint of cheating and breach of trust against a man named Jay Shah, who posed as an agent of the Gujarat Cricket Association (GCA) and cheated a resident Masari Kandoria of Rs 2.68 lakh by promising him to provide 41 tickets of the match.

A man from Kolkata had bought two tickets for Rs 10,000 and a man had come to get an extra ticket from him.

The man from Kolkata decided to sell a ticket to another person, who snatched the tickets from him and fled. Some 15 counterfeit ticket sellers and black marketeers were detained.