Amid the mounting row over the move to shunt Bihar Police officer Vinay Tiwari to isolation, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Monday said he has been "quarantined as per existing norms in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic".

Tiwari, an IPS officer and Superintendent of Police, Patna Central, who was rushed to Mumbai in connection with the probe into the Sushant Singh Rajput case, is presently lodged in state police guest house in Goregaon.