Mumbai has recently witnessed a rise in attacks on on-duty police personnel, with two incidents reported within the Malad police station limits in just one week. The latest incident occurred on New Year’s Eve during a checkpoint operation, where a couple allegedly misbehaved with police officers. They snatched a nameplate from a male officer's uniform, verbally abused him, and bit a female officer who intervened to assist her colleague.

In an earlier incident on December 24, a police officer from the same station was assaulted with a bamboo stick by a man while managing traffic, leaving the officer with serious injuries. According to a source from Malad police, the couple—identified as Mohammed Yunus Baladiwala and his wife, Shabnam Baladiwala—were booked in the early hours of Wednesday, January 1, for allegedly assaulting a male constable, Arun Mansingh Pawar, 42, and two female constables during a routine nakabandi (checkpoint) operation.