MUMBAI, April 8 -- For residents of Santosh Nagar at Dindoshi in Goregaon East, the arrest of 10 members of a family on Sunday, following an altercation between members of two communities, has come as a relief for both communities alike. Tensions had flared up when a few persons objected to a song played by the DJ in a religious procession, and violence escalated after the accused family allegedly brought out swords and attacked members of the procession. When HT visited the area on Tuesday, residents said the escalation had fortuitously helped confront the nuisance of alleged drug peddling by a family, which they had been unable to fight. Addicts, they said, would line up in front of their locked grilled gates to allegedly buy drugs through the day and night. "It was like a ration line for drugs at times," claimed Chandni Ansari, a neighbour. "While the addicts never hurt or attacked the locals, their regular presence in the locality made women feel unsafe." The accused family, 10 of whom are now under arrest, were known to be aggressive, picking up fights and using abusive language on the slightest pretext. Residents said that they were scared to stand up to them, and hence the arrests were a huge relief. However, they added, they were worried about their safety once the family members, who are history sheeters and prison regulars, were released. "Getting arrested will not deter them," said a resident. At the heart of the residents' problem is a brother-sister duo, Ajju and Shabbo, both of whom allegedly sold drugs from their homes. "Although they have been living in the locality for over three decades, they got into the drug business in 2014, prospered from it and kept expanding it to buy multiple homes in the neighbourhood," said Ansari. Residents said that Ajju started off with a scrap business but got into bad company and subsequently into the drugs business. He has been in and out of jail over the years. Locals said that it was not just the religious issue but the nuisance caused by the drug peddlers that lay at the heart of it. The Shiv Sena's Sanjay Nirupam led a delegation of women to the Dindoshi police station demanding that the police invoke MCOCA against the accused. "The bulldozer action on Monday, where illegal structures linked to the accused were demolished, is a mere eyewash," he said. "We demand action against the multi-storied illegal house."...