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Mumbai: CR starts track clean-up to keep drug addicts at bay
Updated On: 04 October, 2018 05:10 PM IST | Mumbai | Rahul Mahajani
Central Railway authorities clear vegetation and temporary structures along the tracks between CSMT and Sandhurst Road station, leaving drug peddlers with no place to hide
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Earlier, drug peddlers used to carry out illegal activities close to the tracks. Pic/Atul Kamble
After 10 locals were injured in a clash between Byculla residents and Nigerian drug peddlers on June 7, the GRP had requested the CR authorities to clean up the area so that the problem could be solved. In a survey conducted by the GRP, they had found out that the peddlers were using trees and temporary structures to smoke-up and conduct drug-related activities.
Through a number of reports, mid-day has highlighted the activities taking place on the tracks and how the peddlers attacked police teams in the past. When this reporter visited the stretch on Wednesday, he found it to be clean and even a green cloth has been put up along the side of the hutments in order to ensure the area is not misused and it looked tidy. Also the bushes near Masjid station have been cleared and all the waste kept in sacks to be discarded later.
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