Kolkata: A woman, her friend and an app-based cab driver were arrested at Kolkata's Salt Lake on Wednesday afternoon for flouting lockdown norms imposed to contain the spread of the Coronavirus pandemic. According to the police, when the trio was stopped at the checkpoint, the woman and friend allegedly lied to the cops saying they had gone to buy medicines and got into a confrontation with them after which she smeared blood on a policeman's uniform from an old cut on her forehead, threatening to frame him for 'injuring' her, The Times of India reported.

The incident happened at around 12.30 pm on Wednesday when the woman, identified as Sharmista Debnath, and her friend Nirmal Balmiki with the driver of an app-based cab Mohd Javed were stopped by the police. According to the police, they asked the car to stop and asked for their identity cards and their purpose of stepping out of their houses amid a lockdown. Debnath and Balmiki had then told the police personnels that they were going to buy medicines. When the cops asked them for the prescriptions, they said that they were returning from the medical shop. Then the cops asked to show what they had bought, they showed them a few packets of noddles.