Having waited for their promotion as police sub-inspector for the past four years, around 1,285 constables from Maharashtra on Friday sent a letter to the Home Minister, saying they are ready to work on constable-s salary for the next year due to the financial crisis, but want the promotion.

In Mumbai most constables collect and dispose of COVID-19 bodies. They claimed it is a PSI-s job, but they are doing it to ease the burden on PSIs who have only been signing the documents for formalities. According to a police survey, there is a need of 21,000 PSI rank officers in the police department. The constables claimed that they gave the departmental MPSC exam in 2016 and passed but after four years they still have not been promoted. The government only has to get their medical check-up done and send them for training.