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Coldplay can play but will have to pay for Mumbai concert

<p>In light of a recent PIL filed against the state for granting tax exemption to the concert, HC refuses to stay show but directs organisers to give undertaking promising to pay entertainment tax</p>

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A file pic of British band Coldplay during a concert in London
A file pic of British band Coldplay during a concert in London

In response to a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by activist Anjali Damania and businessman Hemant Gavande in the Bombay High Court on Wednesday, Justice Manjula Chellur and Justice Mahesh Sonak yesterday ruled that the Global Citizen India concert would go ahead as planned, but only after the state government secured an undertaking from the organisers that they would pay entertainment tax as per the Bombay Entertainment Duty Act, 1923, if the court directed so.

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