David Guetta mix-up': Bengaluru police to give legal notice to Sunburn

Bengaluru: Bengaluru police have taken the legal route to end the 'burn' over charges they had been cavalier over granting permission for a David Guetta concert in the city. Bengaluru rural police are set to issue a legal notice on Saturday, to 'Sunburn' - the organizers of the David Guetta charity - for allegedly "misinforming the public," "showcasing the police in poor light for their lack of following the protocol," and "showing the city in a poor light," an officer told Deccan Chronicle.

The concert, set for January 12 was cancelled barely hours before the event after the organizers failed to get the mandatory police permission. The concert, just like a previous concert of the hugely popular French DJ and Grammy award winner in March 2012, was sold out. City Police Commissioner Praveen Sood told this newspaper he was deeply disturbed at the way the image of Bengaluru was being "sullied on fictitious grounds".

"The event was not even being held in the city and yet there was propaganda against the city and the police. We didn't have any knowledge about the concert and came to know of it much later," said Mr. Sood, insistent that Bengaluru is a safe city.

Seemanth Singh, IGP (Central Range) said: "We are going to issue a legal notice to the organisers to ask them to explain why they didn't seek police permission much ahead of the concert and why they have shown the police in poor light. They approached us only on January 10, while the tickets for the concert were sold much ahead and Bengaluru was mentioned as the venue." “They should have shown the correct venue. Why did they misinform the public?

And now they are blaming the police for denying them permission, while attributing lack of law and order in Bengaluru as the reason behind this," said the officer, pointing to the advertisement that fails to mention the venue of the concert as being in the outskirts of the city and not the CBD where the New Year's eve molestation took place. Bengaluru Rural SP Amit Singh said that if 'Sunburn' was expecting a crowd of 20,000 for the concert, they should have taken police permission to ensure crowd safety much earlier.