Monday, December 1, 2025

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 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 

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