Mumbai, Jan 10 (Reporter) The Bombay High Court on Friday dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) field by a city based lawyer raising concerns over black marketing of the tickets sold online in September last year for the coldplay concert to be held in Navi Mumbai in this month. Lawyer Amit Vyas had earlier filed a police complaint against BookMyShow and other promoters of the Coldplay concert, after he failed to secure tickets for the concert by the renowned British rock band scheduled for January 2025. In his PIL, he alleged black marketing during the online sale of the Coldplay concert tickets on September 22. Vyas sought direction to create regulations to address ticket scalping, touting and black marketing for major events until specific laws and rules were established to combat these practices. A Division bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Amit Borkar while dismissing the plea in its order said that the prayers made by the petitioner, advocate Amit Vyas, pertained to policy making and lies in the domain of executive and legislature. It permitted the petitioner to approach a competent authority of the state government with its grievances. The PIL had sought the court’s direction to booking platforms such as BookMyShow and event promoters Live Nation Entertainment, Big Tree Entertainment, and Viagogo Entertainment, among others, to cooperate with expert and monitoring panels. The bench had erlier suggested the petitioner to approach the state with his grievances and remarked, “You are inviting us to enter into policy making. You are also asking us to begin a regulatory measure. It is all for the state to do. We will ask the state to consider grievances. We have our own well defined ambit…State’s criminal law enforcement agencies are not so weak that if a third party is not cooperating with them, they don't know how to make them cooperate.” The petitioner had during the earlier hearing urged the court to form a monitoring committee led by a former High Court Judge and consisting of cyber experts and give recommendations to authorities to ensure effective implementation of security measures for the online ticketing system of major events...////...