India, 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 thro...