In a shocking incident, a popular online portal has carried an ad where a woman was available for sale for Rs 2,000. The photograph of a young woman was uploaded on the online portal on October 26, offering the woman for Rs 2,000. The ad also contained the name and telephone number of a contact person.

Captioned '22Years girl - Kolkata', the classified advertisement said: "I am Soumen Barui i am the ajent of the girl. If u interest enjoying this girl please contract me. please not on fake call."

When a leading newspaper contacted Barui on the telephone number given in the ad, he got angry, saying it was a wrong number. When he was told the caller did not want to know whether he is actually an 'ajent', he started to talk.

"You don't know how many calls I have received since Sunday. People have been calling up and asking about some girl. Finally, I checked the internet and realized that somebody had played this prank on me. I don't know why somebody would want to cause me such distress. Finally, I lodged a complaint with the Bijpur police station in Kanchrapara. I realized that if I don't do so, I am liable to get into legal trouble. I shall visit the police station on Wednesday again and insist that the authorities try and find out who the prankster is," Barui said.

Amarjit Batra, country manager, OLX India, said that he had no idea of this matter and when he was informed about this he checked the site and was in complete shock after discovering the ad.

"We have filters. We have a dedicated team of people who go through advertisements. However, this is a very popular site and sometimes things like these do manage to get through. Thank you for informing us. We shall get this advertisement removed immediately," he said. Batra kept his word and the controversial advertisement was removed within minutes.