The Charkop police have registered a case against two people, for attempting to molest a 21-year-old Malad woman in a quarantine centre, after calling her there on the pretext that she had tested positive for COVID-19. One half of the duo was arrested on Sunday. Strangely, the woman and her family, had tested negative earlier at the same centre.

According to the statement given by the complainant to the police, she received a call on her father's mobile phone, where a person claiming to be from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), informed the family that the girl had tested positive for COVID-19 and needed to be taken to the New Bhoomi Park isolation centre at Jankalayan Nagar, Malad West. "My father was told that an ambulance would pick me up to take me to the isolation centre. On June 13, when the ambulance did not arrive, my father took me to the centre in an auto rickshaw and dropped me off. A person called Amit Tatkare there told me to go to one of the rooms on the sixth floor of the building. I went up. A boy was sanitising the room. Sometime later Tatkare came to the room and told me that I had not tested positive and then tried to force himself on me," the girl told the police in her statement.