Kanpur: "Take a total of seven thousand rupees for above one-year-old seven-kg male goat," said a shopper but the goat seller refused vehemently. He looked at another seller who also refused. The third seller was also not easy to deal with.
Disturbed with the delay in a deal that worried buyer thought it was better to pay eight thousand rupees and take away the not-so muscular goat.
However, the Sarsaul-based vendor, under the strong urge of avarice, said to finalise the deal by paying two hundred rupees more. Thus the bargain was completed.
The vendor took the pain of bringing the goat to the buyer's place not too far from the impromptu market arranged in a muck filled older-time narrow lane in Jajmau.
This open market was neither crowded with enough purchasers nor a sufficient number of goat vendors.
Whatever numbers of sellers who existed were roaming with their animals from one end to another end were trying to sell their animals at exorbitant prices.
They were not accepting any words of discounts from those walking to buy at least one goat for strictly the sacrificial purpose.
The sellers were so callous as they did not provide anything to feed the goats. One said his goat has not taken even a single grain since the morning. While another gave one accepted of giving two glasses of soda to his animal.
They have their logic which did not suit the points of the buyers arguing for a deal there.
The goat market has certainly been confined to one place that was why it has turned into a seller's market.
A sacrificial goat is a must for saheb-i-nisab Qurbani on the occasion of Eid ul Azha. So every Muslim who complete the defined procedures requires to sacrifice a goat.
