A mob in India in Bihar's Teghra district assaulted and blinded a 30-year-old man by injecting acid in his eyes, India Today reported on Saturday.

The tractor driver by profession was allegedly attacked for eloping with his employer's wife. The man in his statement, according to India Today, told the police that he used to work as a tractor driver at Barauni village in Teghra district and had a love affair with his employer's wife.

On February 6, the man and his paramour had eloped, following which the woman's husband had registered a complaint, accusing the man of kidnapping his wife, the DSP was quoted as saying.

However, the woman came back to Teghra on February 16 and recorded her statement in a local court. Her husband, a farmer, was asked to take her to his house.

It was on Saturday evening that the 30-year-old received a phone call from the woman's brother-in-law, asking him to take her back, the news report said.

They called the man to the Teghra Police Station, enroute to which he was surrounded by a mob of 20 men who first brutally thrashed him and then injected acid in his eyes with a syringe, reported India Today. They then left him near Hanuman Chowk, Bhagwanpur area of the district. A passerby rushed the man to a hospital at Begusarai.

The police have arrested one person and are investigating the matter further.