The defendants are being questioned, police said (Representational)
Varanasi:
Four people have been arrested for allegedly posting an online advertisement listing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Varanasi office for “sale,” police said Friday.
The defendant had taken a photograph of the “Jansampark Kaaryalay (public relations office) “from Prime Minister Modi, who represents Varanasi in the Lok Sabha, and put it” for sale “on the OLX website, they said.
The office is located in the city’s Jawahar Nagar town, and is within the boundaries of the Bhelupur police station, Varanasi Police Superintendent (SSP) Amit Pathak said.
“We learned yesterday that the prime minister’s office here was put up for sale on the OLX website. An FIR was immediately filed at the Bhelupur police station, and the matter is being investigated,” said Pathak.
“Four people involved in the case have been arrested,” he said, adding that the person who took the photo and posted it on the website is among them.
The defendants are being questioned and further legal proceedings are underway, he said.
Prime Minister Modi was first elected to Varanasi’s Lok Sabha in 2014 and then re-elected from the constituency in 2019.
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