Asst Commissioner Drinks Sanitizer Instead Of Water Published by GulteDesk February 04, 2021 Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) Assistant Commissioner Ramesh Pawar confused sanitizer with water and drank a sip of it. The incident took place while he was presenting the education budget in Mumbai on Wednesday. Such bizarre and shocking incidents have taken place earlier too ever since people started using sanitizers in high numbers. Quite a handful of cases have been reported in the last few months from Arizona, Russia and even in India. Swallowing alcohol-based hand sanitiser products containing methanol can cause life-threatening methanol poisoning, In fact, drinking any form of sanitiser is dangerous.