mumbai bmc on friday suspended subengineer dinesh gawande posted at international airport for issuing fake letters on private hospital letterheads to international passengers landing here for exemption from institutional quarantine bmc also filed an fir against gawande at sahar police station he was to scrutinise passengers arriving from uk europe middle east and south africa officials said gawande charged two passengers rs10000 for letters from a private hospital gawande is with the town planning department but was posted at the airport on covid19 duty we were tipped off that he may indulge in such activity we had a suspicion and when we checked him we found letterheads of two private hospitals with him and some money he has been suspended pending a probe and an fir was filed additional municipal commissioner projects p velrasu said we want to give a stern message that such irregularity will not be tolerated velrasu said bmc had last december issued guidelines for passengers arriving from europe and middle east passengers have to undergo sevendays compulsory institutional quarantine at designated hotels it had said all passengers will only be tested on the seventh day while it had earlier said passengers can be tested between the fifth and seventh days all passengers in institutional quarantine will have to be in seven days home quarantine if their test reports are negative on the seventh day and they are allowed to go home officials said an fir was filed under ipc and disaster management act sections they said an employee with a dutyfree shop had taken two passengers to gawande the employee gave rs10000 to gawande for exemption from institutional quarantine as they were in need of urgent medical care on medical grounds we are given exemption from institutional quarantine like cancer patients and other seriously ill patients an official said