{"id":49066,"date":"2026-04-17T14:50:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T09:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=49066"},"modified":"2026-04-17T14:53:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T09:23:19","slug":"ipl-2026-chinnaswamy-stadiums-canteen-staff-sells-rs-30-lakhs-worth-tickets-for-rcb-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2026-chinnaswamy-stadiums-canteen-staff-sells-rs-30-lakhs-worth-tickets-for-rcb-match\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2026: Chinnaswamy Stadium\u2019s canteen staff sells Rs 30 Lakhs worth tickets for RCB match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Black market racket uncovered inside stadium<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A canteen staff member at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium has been arrested for allegedly selling IPL tickets in the black market. The accused, Chandrashekhar, is said to have sold 181 tickets at prices ranging between Rs 15,000 and Rs 19,000 for recent matches, including the RCB vs LSG fixture on April 15.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say the tickets were sourced through corporate bookings and diverted for resale. Names of private firms have surfaced, and a KSCA member, Ganesh Pareekshit, has been identified as a key link. He is currently absconding. The Central Crime Branch has widened the probe, with more questioning expected. How deep does this network go, and who else is involved?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Corporate links and wider probe raise bigger concerns<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The case is no longer limited to one individual. Police have flagged a pattern involving bulk purchases through online platforms, later resold at inflated rates. Similar activity was traced to an earlier match on March 28. FIRs have been filed against company representatives suspected of enabling the route.<\/p>\n<p>Officials maintain that reselling tickets is not illegal, but profiteering through inflated pricing crosses the line. The scale here suggests organisation rather than isolated action. If access points within the system are compromised, what safeguards are actually in place?<\/p>\n<p><strong>RCB\u2019s rise, but fans left paying the price<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All this comes at a time when Royal Challengers Bengaluru are enjoying a strong season, sitting second on the points table. Demand to watch players like Virat Kohli has naturally surged. But incidents like this hit the very people the league depends on.<\/p>\n<p>Fans wait all year for these games. Many save up, plan ahead, and still struggle to get legitimate access. When tickets are diverted and sold at high prices, it shuts them out. The question is simple, who is protecting the fans in all of this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black market racket uncovered inside stadium A canteen staff member at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium has been arrested for allegedly\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":473,"featured_media":49067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4057],"class_list":["post-49066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl","tag-top-stories"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/473"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49068,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49066\/revisions\/49068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}