Railway Protection Force (RPF) constable, Salim Shaikh, who had managed to catch hold of an African drug peddler Kone Adama, even after being hit on his head with a bamboo stick, was given the Central Railway General Managers' award on Tuesday for his act of bravery.

According to the police, on October 18, the Dongri police had requested the RPF that they wanted to conduct a joint raid along the tracks near Wadi Bandar, Byculla and Sandhurst Road stations, as the drug peddlers were back in action there. Soon after, 20 RPF cops and 50 officers from the Dongri police station formed five teams and started the operation. Around 11.10 pm, when one of the teams spotted eight to 10 peddlers hiding behind a bush near the tracks, they alerted the other teams. However, on spotting the cops, the peddlers started pelting stones at them and even tried to escape.