Mumbai Jan 2 (Reporter) The Bombay High Court on Thursday reserved its order on a PIL filed 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 later 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 programme. The PIL 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. Arguing before the division bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Amit Borkar, Vyas contended that as the state has imposed entertainment tax or duty on organisers of the event to be held at D Y Patil stadium, it is the authorities’ duty to ensure tickets are not sold in the black market and the public at large is not cheated. The PIL also 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 suggested the petitioner 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 do not know how to make them cooperate.” Vyas's counsel 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...////...