Hyderabad, May 4 (PTI) Three persons were arrested here for trying to sell high-value IPL tickets which were procured allegedly by forging letterheads of VVIPs/VIPs, police said on Monday.
A police team on bandobust duty for an IPL match at RGI cricket stadium, Uppal, on Sunday received credible information that three persons were selling IPL tickets for high rates, a release from Malkajgiri Police Commissionerate said.
The police team reached the parking place of the stadium and noticed three persons trying to sell tickets and after searching them and their vehicle found five complimentary tickets, each valued at Rs 22,000.
On further inquiry, the trio, hailing from Andhra Pradesh, revealed that they along with three other absconding accused from Tamil Nadu, hatched a plan to gain easy money and downloaded letterheads of various VVIPs/VIPs like Judges, Ministers and Governors.
The accused then submitted the “letterheads by forging” signatures of the VVIPs/VIPs to Hyderabad Cricket Association, and other Cricket Associations of different states, and got several high rate tickets and sold it for higher rates, police said.
Police seized one four-wheeler, five IPL tickets each valued at Rs 22,000, five mobile phones and five forged letterheads from the possession of the three accused, who were subsequently arrested.
A case under relevant sections of BNS was registered at Uppal Police Station. PTI VVK VVK KH
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