Mumbai Crime: Kalyan women nab peddler gang ruining their kids

When the police failed to take action a group of mighty women from Kalyan took on some very high druggies to drive them out of their neighbourhood on Sunday They managed to nab eight druggies from a group of 2025 who had also got some youngsters in the area addicted to drugsFor the past month the nuisancecreating druggies were giving sleepless nights to the women who reside in the Khade Golivali area in Kalyan According to the residents they had to stay awake till 5 am to tackle the group of 20 to 25 nuisancecreating druggiesInattentive copsManoj Mali a social worker said Almost 7000 residents that live in our area were having sleepless nights We would always stay up and call out to each other when the druggies would pelt stones at our homes A few of my friends and I would also patrol at night but once we went into our homes the druggies would start their work They used the garden area in the afternoon and night and trouble us residents every timeResident Priyanka Vengurlekar said The druggies used to come to our window light a torch and keep banging the window When we went to police station and narrated the incident cops just came once to patrol the areaSughandha Mane another resident said Senior PI Gavit came to our area and told us Dont be scared of them You can catch them together easily and hand them to us Dont beat them or else we will file complaint against you Were not satisfied with the polices activities Weve lost our sleep because cops are not paying attention to our complaint and seeing our children undergo this traumaUnited on WhatsAppThe residents decided to tackle this bunch by first coming together on social media Alka Bhosale 50 said We made a WhatsApp group and shared all our numbers with each other The druggies would come to our chawl and bang on the door Sometimes theyd knock and say theres a robbery in your neighbourhood please open the door But because we know each other so well wed immediately call each other and open the door together When the druggies saw that theyd immediately flee The group would also leave on seeing Mali and his group of patrollers approachingSo Mali decided to guide all of the women in the area to keep an eye on their activities And then they made a plan to crackdown on the druggies on SundaySticks for the stonedBhosale said We told Manoj dada that we want to stop this nuisance and keep our area safe for our children We want to help our men get rid of the druggies On Sunday they broke some beer bottles in front of someones house We all called each other and waited to hear the sound of sound of their bike One of our residents saw them heading to the garden from her window We immediately informed each other and Mali dada Then all of us women took sticks and went towards the garden Mali and his team were hiding near itSeeing the women heading towards them the druggies came out But before they knew it a mob of 200 had descended upon them The women formed a circle around the eight druggies and some men tried to catch the others whod fled from the spot The residents then checked the white powder the druggies had it turned out to be MD Kolshewadi senior PI Kavi Gavit told midday Our officers patrol the area for 24 hours Weve arrested the accused Soon well arrest all othersAlso readMumbai Africanorigin peddlers destroy their passports to evade deportationCatch up on all the latest Mumbai news crime news current affairs and also a complete guide on Mumbai from food to things to do and events across the city here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updates