African drug peddlers are back at the Sandhurst Road railway tracks, and so is their war with the police. Just three months after a massive drugs bust at the spot, a narcotics gang attacked a joint team of Mumbai police and railway cops on Wednesday, leaving an RPF constable with a head injury. The cops arrested one of the dealers, who had hit the cop with a bamboo pole.

Three months ago, in July, a similar attack on an assistant police inspector prompted the cops to launch a massive manhunt for African dealers operating along the Sandhurst Road tracks (see box). At the time, the police had arrested eight peddlers.