Mehraj Din Malla, an abducted Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Vice-President of Watergam Municipal Committee, Baramulla was safely rescued by the Jammu and Kashmir Police late Wednesday evening.
He was abducted by 'unidentified' terrorists from Rafiabad area of Baramulla.
Inspector General of Police, Kashmir ranger Vijay Kumar late evening confirmed, “Mehraj Din Malla, BJP leader & vice-president of Watergam Municipal Committee in Baramulla who was abducted earlier today has been rescued by Police”
After the killing of a young BJP leader Sheikh Wasim Bari, former district President Bandipora, the abduction of another BJP leader had kept senior police officers on their tenterhooks throughout the day.
Several teams of Jammu and Kashmir police were working on ground zero since morning to track down the footprints of his abductors.
Mehraj Din Malla's family members including his daughter had made passionate appeals to those unidentified abductors to release their loved one.
Unconfirmed reports indicated, after identifying the abductors, local police teams had called family members of a Lashkar-e- Tayyeba commander to one of the police stations to ensure safe release of a BJP leader. It is learnt, a local LeT commander identified as Sajjad had issued threats to BJP leaders and family members of policemen of dire consequences.