If you chance upon a group brandishing lathis and canes during a late night stroll in the bylanes of Byculla and Mazgaon, you have no cause to retrace your steps. The bevy before you is most likely to be a bunch of local residents, losing sleep to keep their families and belongings safe. Over the last two weeks, inhabitants have been forced to keep nocturnal vigil, following a flurry of burglaries in the neighbourhood.

Youngsters from Mazgaon-Byculla have taken up the cudgels following a flurry of burglaries.