Residents of a premium high-rise in Prabhadevi have been waking up to unsavoury sights like encroachers defecating on the pavement outside. They have been forced to shell out Rs 15,000 every month to guard the premises against defecators, druggies and encroachers, said a report in this paper.

Complaints have been filed, but the authorities have failed to stamp out the problem, and the encroachers have stayed put despite efforts to oust them. Drug addicts and alcoholics loiter below their building at night, and residents have been assaulted by some of the squatters.