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Mumbai Police starts drive to make city beggar-free Representational Image Mumbai: In a drive to make the city beggar-free, the Mumbai police has started to rounded up beggars from the city streets. The joint commissioner of police (law and order) Vishwas Nangare Patil has instructed all the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCPs) to act against people who indulged in begging. As a part of the drive, the Azad Maidan police lodged 14 beggars to a beggars home in Chembur on Saturday. The drive again...

The supreme Court on Wednesday sought response from the Centre and some state governments on a plea seeking direction to repeal provisions criminalising begging.Petitioner Vishal Pathak, a resident of UPs Meerut, had filed the plea through ...