THE Marine Drive police have booked a former employee for spreading misinformation about a well-known airline. Police said the accused was removed from service in 2014, and since then he has been attempting to disrupt the functioning of the airline. This time, he sent an e-mail and WhatsApp posts saying a chartered flight of the airline had gone to France from Mumbai to drop off French nationals on April 2 and it was not sanitised, posing a COVID-19 threat to the crew.

What happened

On April 3, an e-mail was received by 17 persons including Sahar police, DCP (Zone 8), the police commissioner, health minister, aviation minister, various secretaries of government departments, Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), other officers from DGCA and Home Minister Amit Shah. The mail was sent by a person named KVJ Rao, saying no procedure was followed during operation of the chartered flight on April 2.