Heavy deployment of police has been put in place at a civic-run hospital in Thane city of Maharashtra after an overnight drama in which a group of people gathered there and questioned the authorities alleging death of five persons in a day due to "negligence", officials told news agency PTI on Friday.

The authorities of the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Hospital in Kalwa, where the incident took place late Thursday night, however denied the charge saying that only one patient died there during the day as against the allegation of five fatalities, reported PTI.