A performance here today by film stars Salman Khan, Diya Mirza and Johny Lever was cancelled by police because its organisers had not obtained permission for the show.

Police seized all tickets for the show, arrested four of the organisers and cancelled the programme at Netaji Indoor Stadium as permission was not taken for the event, Deputy Commissioner of Police P K Chattopadhyay told reporters here.

He said the organisers had even gone to the extent of printing an additional 700 tickets for the function.

"Salman Khan informed us that he is not participating in the function due to breach of contract," he said.

Chattopadhyay said 90 per cent of the artists named in the tickets did not turn up for the show.

It was not immediately known how the state sports and youth welfare department's official stamps were obtained for a function that was not permitted by police, Chattopadhyay said.