A 42-year-old Bandra resident was booked for drunk driving allegedly, after having locked herself in her car for two hours, chain smoking, allegedly in order to avoid taking a breathalyser test by Mumbai police, who have stepped up their controls of drunk drivers, focusing in particular on women, after lawyer Janhavi Gadkar allegedly killed two when driving drunk last week, reported DNA.

The stalemate was eventually broken, according to an officer, who said: “There was a lot of smoke inside the car and anything could have happened due to extreme suffocation. So we had to break the glass and rescue her.”

She was charged with section 185 of the Motor Vehicles Act (driving under the influence) and section 110 of the Bombay Police Act (indecent behaviour in public.