The Central Railway, late last year, had initiated a pilot project to clean up tracks between CSMT and Sandhurst Road station to render the spots useless for drug peddlers who used them as a hideout. Months down the line, mid-day visited the spot and found that the green cloth is missing, with only pieces of it lying around at the site.

In 2018, mid-day had reported a series of stories about drug peddlers using railway tracks as a spot to run their business. GRP had also found out through a survey that peddlers were using trees and temporary structures along the route to smoke-up and conduct drug-related activities, which is why cleaning up the area was looked at as a solution to the problem.