Following the diktat of the former Police Commissioner Subodh Jaiswal, DGP of Maharashtra, the Mumbai police demolished around 259 paan beedi shops near schools and colleges in the city with the civic body in the last two months. The demolition signifies step 2 of the city police's drive against drugs. Step 1 was registration of drug-related cases.

If, as an official said to this paper, the paan-beedi shops play a major role, with students starting with tobacco and cigarettes and then moving to drugs, this action is welcome and a vital cog in the clean-up wheel.