Sunburn tickets on sale despite no police permission
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Hyderabad: Cyberabad Police on Monday clarified that there is no permission for the Sunburn music festival on New Year’s eve even as the online sale of tickets for the event continued.
A day after Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy directed Cyberabad Police Commissioner Avinash Mohanty to inquire into the alleged sale of tickets by the BookMyShow portal for the Sunburn music festival, the Commissioner clarified that permission has not been granted for the event.
He said the organisers applied for the permission, but the police have not given the permission as it is not like the Sunburn events held in other cities. Arrangements were on for the event near HITEC City, the information technology hub in Madhapur under the limits of Cyberabad Police Commissionerate.
Though the Police Commissioner said that the permission was not given for the event, the sale of tickets was continuing on BookMyShow for the event planned on the night of December 31.
The Chief Minister during a conference with district collectors and SPs on Sunday directed the Police Commissioner to inquire into the sale of tickets for the event. He wanted to know if the permission was given and when informed that no permission was given, he asked the police chief to inquire into the sale of tickets. He mentioned that states like Goa, Maharashtra, and Karnataka cancelled Sunburn.
Revanth Reddy took note of this while giving directions to collectors and SPs to curb the drug menace with an iron hand.
