A case was registered on Sunday against Vijay Goel, the Bharatiya Janata Party candidate from the Delhi Sadar constituency, when Devender Singh, a policeman assigned as personal security officer to him, was caught distributing sarees at a slum relocation colony on Roshanara Road.
The incident follows a similar function in Lucknow, where 22 women lost their lives in a stampede.
The police said they caught Singh red-handed while he was distributing sarees at Sita Sharan colony near Roshanara Road. They said reports of BJP workers distributing sarees in the constituency had been doing the rounds for several days.
On Sunday, acting on a complaint at the behest of Goel's rival candidate from the Congress, Jagdish Tytler, the police "raided" the workers and recovered 6