The Borivli police on Saturday registered an FIR and booked six policemen attached to the Borivli police station for allegedly not appearing on duty since the last couple of months during the COVID-19 pandemic. The accused policemen have been identified as Prashant Bhosle, Pardeep Agvan, Harishchandra Bhosle, Vishwanath Namdaar, Pardeepkumar Babar and women constable Priyanka Chavan.

All six have been booked under Section 145 of Maharashtra Police Act along with Section 56 of the Disaster Management Act. According to sources, a few police personnel went on leave before the lockdown was announced while some went during the lockdown. However, they did not come back in spite of the leave period exhausting. So they were served with a notice, which they all chose to ignore.