Employer who blinded tractor driver for eloping with his wife arrested

A mob of around 20 people accosted the driver while he was on way to a police station, dragged him in a SUV where they thrashed him before they blinded him by injecting acid into his eyes.

Bihar’s Begusarai police late Saturday night arrested Dayaram Singh, the main accused behind injecting acid in the eyes of a tractor driver, Gautam Kumar, who had eloped with his wife early this month. Gautam served the Singh family as their tractor driver and fell in love with his wife for which he paid a heavy price.

A police team raided a house in Baruni area and arrested the accused.

A mob of around 20 people Friday late night accosted Gautam while he was on way to a police station, dragged him in a SUV where they brutally thrashed him before they blinded him by injecting acid into his eyes.

Teghra police station SHO, RS Paswan said following Gautam’s statement recorded at a local private hospital, where he is currently undergoing treatment, a police team led by Teghra SDPO BK Singh raided a house in Baruni area and arrested Dayaram Singh.

Singh, however, declined his involvement in the case. The police were interrogating him to ascertain involvement of other persons in the incident.

A case has been lodged with Teghra police station the basis of Gautam’s statement, the SHO said.

However, that did not satisfy his anger and he decided to teach his former tractor driver a bitter lesson for defaming him in the society. On Friday evening, he called up Gautam and asked him to go to Teghra police station where his wife was waiting for him. “She wants to stay with you. I have asked her to follow her desire,” he told Gautam.

Gautam didn’t have the faintest of idea that they had laid a trap to punish him. The SHO said, “As Gautam headed for the police station, Dayaram and his associates accosted him on the way, dragged him into a Scorpio where they assaulted him and injected acid into his eyes,” he said.