MUMBAI, July 24 -- High drama unfolded at Sassoon Dock on Tuesday as the port authorities faced off with angry members of the Koli community, who brandished sickles while resisting eviction from warehouses. The eviction attempt follows a standoff with the Mumbai Port Authority (MbPA), which is demanding that the Kolis and others who use its godowns, at the dock pay rents at Ready Reckoner rates. The Koli community says it feels deeply betrayed as they had been given an assurance by state fisheries and ports development minister Nitesh Rane that the matter would be worked out. "If the ports minister has assured us we wouldn't be evicted, under whose instructions is MbPA acting," asked Krishna Pawle, president of the Shiv Bharatiya Port Sena. Pawle questioned the sudden urgency of the eviction after over a decade of inaction. P3...