Team News Riveting
The Varanasi police nabbed four persons for allegedly posting an online advertisement on OLX website listing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Varanasi office for “sale”.
The accused had taken a picture of the “Jansampark Kaaryalay (public relations office)” of Modi’s parliamentary constituency and put it “up for sale”, the police said. The office is located in the Jawahar Nagar locality of the city, and it falls under the Bhelupur police station limits.
“Yesterday, it came to our notice that the prime minister’s office here has been put up on sale on OLX website,” Varanasi Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Amit Pathak said. An FIR was immediately lodged at the Bhelupur police station, and the matter was being investigated,” he added.
“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 investigating police officials are interrogating the accused to establish the intention of crime even as legal proceedings had been initiated.
Prime Minister Modi, a four-time chief minister of Gujarat, was first elected to the Lok Sabha from Varanasi in 2014 and then re-elected from the constituency in 2019.
