Shillong : A senior Meghalaya official, abducted by tribal Rabha rebels, was rescued Sunday while security forces killed four of his abductors in Assam's Goalpara district.
Dilip Dutta Medhi, sericulture development officer of Resubelpara in Meghalaya, was rescued in the Buglamary area from Rabha National Liberation Front (RNLF) kidnappers, Goalpara district police chief Nitul Gogoi told IANS by phone.
Security forces gunned down four kidnappers in the ensuing gun battle. Police recovered one carbine, one pistol and two hand grenades from the dead men.
"We will send the Meghalaya official to his relatives," the police official said.
Medhi along with his peon was kidnapped by the RNLF rebel group Nov 14 from Chotomatia area, bordering Assam's Goalpara district and Meghalaya's North Garo Hills district, when he was going to Guwahati to meet his family.
