I had gone to the market to buy some fruits and vegetables. I went by a rickshaw. I paid the rickshaw man and got down. As I hurried towards the fruit-shops, I saw two persons shouting at each other. They were angry and exchanging hot words. It attracted the people?s attention. But they remained at some distance and did not intervene.

The quarrel was between a rickshaw-man and a passenger. There was some misunderstanding on payment of the fare. The passenger was dressed in a shirt and trousers and the rickshaw-man in a baniyan and lungi. The passenger was paying the rickshaw-man four rupees saying that it was the fare agreed upon. But the man in lungi insisted on receiving rupees five. He said that it was the agreed fare.

For a few movements, they shouted, hurled abuses at each other and exchanged angry and hot words. But soon it turned into an exchange of fists and blows. They began to kick, punch, push and pull each other in the scuffle. The crowd of spectators enjoyed the fun of it and none cared to separate them. None wanted to play the role of a peace-maker.

The nasty quarrel and fight continued for a few minutes when the rickshaw-man fell down on the ground because of a severe blow from the passenger. There was a cut on his lips and his nose began to bleed. Seeing this, 2-3 other rickshaw-men joined the fight on behalf of their fellow rickshaw-man. Now, they began to beat the passenger. The situation began to turn into worse. The injured rickshaw-man began to cry and weep. His fellow rickshaw-men pulled the passenger by one of his legs and he fell down screaming. His bag of sweets was torn apart. The sweets were strewn all over the scene of fighting. Now a large crowd had collected and some of the people came forward to stop the fight and pacify the fighting parties.

After sometime, the people were able to disengage and separate the fighters but still they continued abusing one another. Then three policemen arrived on the scene in a police van. They pushed in the three rickshaw-men and the passenger into their van and drove away to the nearby police station.