Twenty-seven people were apprehended after a scuffle between some drug addicts and slum dwellers resulted in heavy traffic jam in the northwest Delhi's Ashok Vihar area, police said on Thursday. It all started on Wednesday night with the scuffle between Santosh (23), resident of AO Block of Shalimar Bagh, and two-three drug addict boys near Prem Badi bus stand in the area and later he also called the local residents from slums who came on the road and started blocking traffic, police said.

Eight police personnel along with Santosh were also injured in the incident, they said, adding police vehicles were also damaged by the crowd of nearly 180 people.