The ad listed the Prime Minister’s office as a 4-bedroom, 4-bathroom villa with a carpet area of 6,500 square feet.
An advertisement on the classifieds website OLX has put Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Varanasi office up for sale at a price of 7.5 million rupees. Four people have been arrested in this regard. The ad had details and photos of the establishment.
The police have withdrawn the advertisement and filed an FIR on it. “We received information that someone took a photograph of the Prime Minister’s office located in that Jawaharnagar colony in the Bhelupur area and uploaded it to the OLX website. Taking notice of the matter, an FIR was filed and an investigation into the matter was initiated. The person who took the photograph has also been arrested. Further investigations are ongoing, ”said SSP Varanasi Amit Pathak in a statement issued to the media.
According to senior law enforcement officials, OLX’s announcement listed Prime Minister Modi’s parliamentary office in Varanasi as a four-bedroom, four-bathroom villa with a carpet area of 6,500 square feet. It is in the 77 parliamentary constituency. While this office, which is mainly used for the Prime Minister’s public relations work, is located in the Jawahar Nagar Extension, the advertisement showed the office located in Krishna Dev Nagar.
Varanasi police removed the ad and also detained four people involved in posting the post on OLX. The seller is listed as a Lakshmikant Ojha. Further investigations into the case were underway.
Fake advertisements on the OLX website, an e-commerce site, are not uncommon. Police in states across the country have cracked down on fraudulent ads time and time again. In early September, vendors posing as the military were reported to be defrauding customers. In March, an investigation by a Tamil Nadu police team revealed 14 cases from different parts of Chennai where unknown scammers were found luring potential buyers with convincing offers on second-hand cars and two-wheelers with false identity evidence.
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