NEW DELHI, De 18: They may have done it as a joke but that has landed four people in the police custody.
Almost like the noted conman of fifties Natwarlal who “sold” one of the railway platforms of Patna station, some people had tried to “sale” the office of the prime minister Narendra Modi in his Lok Sabha constituency, Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh. One person took a photograph of the “Jansampark Kaaryalay (public relations office)” of Modi in Varanasi and put it “up for sale” on the OLX website, the police said.
The office is located in the Jawahar Nagar locality of the city, and it falls under the Bhelupur police station limits, Varanasi Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Amit Pathak said.
“Yesterday, it came to our notice that the prime minister’s office here has been put up on sale on OLX website. An FIR was immediately lodged at the Bhelupur police station, and the matter is being investigated,” Pathak said.
“Four people involved in the case have been taken in custody,” the SSP said, adding that the person who took the picture and put it on the website is among them.
The accused are being questioned, and further legal proceedings are being carried out, he said.
Modi is twice elected from Varanasi in 2014 and 2019 parliamentary elections.
(Manas Dasgupta)
