RAJKOT: When his wife went to a wedding with their two children at Viramgam, a 28-year-old man found it a perfect opportunity to rekindle with his former girlfriend. But never in his wildest dream, Ujjain Singh Gautam would have thought that he will never return alive.
Four days after he went missing, the body of Gautam, a native of Uttar Pradesh living in Rajkot for the last five years, was found from a well on a farm at Gundasara village of Gondal taluka in Rajkot district on Wednesday evening.
On February 20, after Gautam’s wife Jyotika went to Viramgam to attend marriage with their children, he went to Gundasara to meet his old flame Anju. Gautam and Anju fell in love with each other while working together at a company in Shapar Veraval in Rajkot district, before he got married and she moved back to live with her family and work as a farm labourer.
On the night of February 20, when Gautam and Anju were having their private moment, her brother woke up to a noise and switched on the light inside the house. Under the fear of being trapped, Gautam started running from there and when Anju’s brother saw his shadow, he too went behind him.
Gautam jumped across a well and started running on the farm of one Suresh Ranpariya. Since it was dark, Gautam did not notice a well without any walls and fell in it.
The next day when Jyotika returned home, she did not find her husband, so she approached the police. Cops while searching for Gautam, found his bike lying abandoned on the outskirts of Gundasara village. On Wednesday while investigating in the village, they were led to Anju, who admitted that Gautam had come to see her on the night of February 20 and had to flee as her brother had woken up.
While going in the direction in which Gautam had run, cops noticed the well and found his body in it. The body was brought out on Wednesday evening and after post-mortem, it was handed over to his wife.