CHENNAI OCT. 2... The 2,000-odd residents of Jamarah Thottam off Walltax Road here are terrorised by a handful of women rowdies living in 20-odd huts, so much so that not even local leaders dare to speak about them. The locality is a cramming with illegal lodges, buildings and slums, choking the already narrow streets. According to residents, it is a market for stolen goods, breeding ground for illnesses, history-sheeters, drug peddlers, addicts and lower-rung politicians and hideout for criminals from outside.But the residents and businessmen here are not as fearful of them as they are of the “women rowdies” of...