Surat Police arrest 24 externed offenders in Operation Tadipaar

Sometimes, police can tell a person who has been in serious trouble to stay out of a city for some time.

This rule is called an externment order.

In the city of Surat in India, police learned that some people who were told to stay away had come back anyway.

So the police launched a special operation called 'Operation Tadipaar' on the orders of the city's police commissioner.

Police teams checked 80 people across different parts of the city and found 24 who were not supposed to be there.

These people had earlier been linked to serious offences such as assault, rioting and cattle-related cases.

All 24 were arrested for violating their externment orders, and cases were filed against them under the Gujarat Police Act.

The police say they will keep running such drives to enforce the rules and keep the city peaceful.