Not used to heavy workload, the old batteries of his STD machines went on the blink. Rohtas then connected the phones to the mains and held the wire as the victims made their calls. His brothers and neighbours also went to work taking people to their homes and trying to connect them to their kin.
Asked about the billing on that fateful night, Rohtas came up with the smartest answer a hero could give: “The phone meter did not work that night.”