The registration of drug-related cases was the first step for the city police's drive against drugs. Now demolition of shops selling tobacco and cigarettes (paan beedi shops) around educational institutes is the new agenda. Following the diktat of the former Police Commissioner Subodh Jaiswal, DGP of Maharashtra, Mumbai police demolished around 259 paan beedi shops near schools and colleges in the city with the civic body in the last two months. In January around 200 shops and in February 59 shops were demolished by the police.

Intensifying their drive against the drugs mafias across the city, Mumbai Police arrested 210 drug peddlers where 123 were arrested in February. Police also seized drugs worth Rs 70 crore during the special drive across the city. A senior officer told midday, "The paan beedi shops play a major role in drugs addiction because students begin with tobacco and cigarettes and then gradually move to drugs. Hence the order, to demolish these shops around schools and colleges in the next one month."