while threatening him with the baton of law , these people were trampling upon his basic rights as a citizen , he wanted to grab them by the scruff of their necks and hurl them to the ground and beat them with the same batons that they were regularly using to terrorize the innocent migrants , but before he could do anything of such rash nature , there arrived on the scene a local gentleman , who approached the hawaldar and then began to talk to him , after having led him away to one side .