New Delhi: Buying tickets for an upcoming garba night by their favourite star Falguni Pathak, cost around 156 young people in Mumbai heavy. They lost a total of Rs 5.14 lakh. The scam unfolded when a person, posing as an authorised event ticket seller, failed to provide the promised discounted tickets. Consequently, the victims decided to report the incident to Mumbai Police, News18 reported.
Falguni Pathak’s Garba Night took place in Mumbai’s Borivali region and a single pass was originally priced at Rs 4,500. But the accused enticed these young people by offering discounted passes and deceived them.
According to the report, a 20-year-old entrepreneur in the painting business, along with two friends came to know about the accused, Vishal Shah and decided to secure passes at a discount through him. This generated interest from 153 more people in their network. They gathered the necessary funds and informed Shah of their plan to purchase 156 passes on Thursday. Shah was reportedly selling the passes for Rs 3,300, as against the official rate of Rs 4,500.
Shah directed three of the interested 156 people to meet a person on New Link Road, Borivali (West), who would collect the money and give them the passes. They followed Shah’s instructions, met the designated person, and exchanged the money for passes. Later, Shah provided them with an address in Yogi Nagar and instructed them to pick up the passes from there. But when the three friends reached Yogi Nagar, they couldn’t find the building, getting suspicious that they had been deceived, the report added.
Subsequently, they lodged a formal complaint at the MHB Colony police station.
