Four of the 13 horses that the Mounted Police Unit of the Mumbai Police had procured for beach patrolling in January 2020 have died due to a gastrointestinal disease. The disease — Colic — can be caused by a number of factors, which include gas formation, impaction, grain overload, sand ingestion and parasite infection. Of the total number of horses, seven are Arabian and six Indian. Out of the seven Arabian ones, four — Padmakosha, Shivalik Skies, Divine Solitaire and Beekwerk — died due to the disease.

One Indian horse that was sick has been retired. The 13 horses were inducted in the unit on January 26, 2020. In 2018, the then Mumbai police commissioner Subodh Kumar Jaiswal (now CBI chief) had submitted a proposal to acquire 30 horses at a cost of Rs 1.5 crore.