Days after the wife of Malwani police station constable David Bansode said in a letter to senior officers and the chief minister that an inhuman work environment, allegedly created by senior inspector Deepak Phatangare, had landed her husband in the intensive care unit (ICU) of a hospital, sources told mid-day that Joint Commissioner of Police (law and order), Vinay Choubey, asked Zonal Deputy Commissioner of Police, Sangramsinh Nishandar, to investigate the matter. "I have asked the DCP to look into the matter," Choubey said.

On April 20, mid-day had published a story (Padsalgikar's 8-hr duty gift to Mumbai police is a myth) wherein Bansode's wife Smitha alleged her husband had to be hospitalised, as Phatangare did not grant him medical leave. She also said her husband was a constable but he was forced to work more than eight hours a day.