The auction began, , forty lakh was the opening amount, Rashid bid sixty, another voice kept on increasing , finally Rashid bid one crore and the three bangs sealed the deal, , some of the bidders congratulated him , one cynically smiling remarked it was Rashid s loss , the factory was worth ninety lakh , Rashid genuinely smiled back explaining, he himself had floated it , the factory was worth much more, many onlookers cheered Rashid, when Rashid left the auction house he was in a hurry to reach his father kanal Rao, to share the news of his accomplishment , but first things first he had to go to his office
There was a road section with hardly any traffic and few people, he saw some boys engaged in a brawl, usually he ignored and avoided such street fights, , but his cousin mukhtyar was amongst them and he had to stop his car , he moved towards them, mukhtyar was one alone against the other four, his one eye was injured ,
Stop it all of you screamed Rashid from a distance, , or I call the police, three of them fled hearing the threat, the fourth could not escape because mukhtyar had caught him by his collar