A group of three people involved in multiple cases of drug peddling was recently externed by the Santacruz police under section 55 (Dispersal of gangs and body of persons) of the Bombay Police Act. The accused were habitual offenders and had multiple cases against them. The Mumbai police used to extern individuals under sections 56 and 57 of the Bombay Police Act. Now, Additional Commissioner of Police Manoj Kumar Sharma, has asked officers to utilise section 55 of the Act, so they can get rid of groups of such offenders.

The three were identified as Sunny Dashrath Shinde, 24, Kalidas Dhanaji Pawar, 22, and Vinod Kale, 47. The Santacruz police had recently arrested all of them under the NDPS Act for possession of drugs.