Itanagar: After 51 days of captivity, National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) General Manager Anil Kumar Agarwal has been rescued from a dense jungle in the Assam-Arunachal border after an encounter with National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) ultras, the police said today.
Agarwal was rescued in a healthy condition from the jungle at Maldang late last night after the encounter between a joint police team and NDFB rebels in which four police personnel were injured.
Among the injured was Sonitpur Superintendent of Police P Kalita, who sustained minor injuries when splinters of a grenade hurled by the rebels hit him, the police said.
Agarwal, who was the project head of Twang hydro power project, was kidnapped on September 21 last by militants of the Sangbojit faction of NDFB, when he was on way to Guwahati.
A rescue operation was launched immediately after his abduction and his driver was arrested.
Agarwal was rescued in a healthy condition from the jungle at Maldang late last night after the encounter between a joint police team and NDFB rebels in which four police personnel were injured.
Among the injured was Sonitpur Superintendent of Police P Kalita, who sustained minor injuries when splinters of a grenade hurled by the rebels hit him, the police said.
Agarwal, who was the project head of Twang hydro power project, was kidnapped on September 21 last by militants of the Sangbojit faction of NDFB, when he was on way to Guwahati.
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A rescue operation was launched immediately after his abduction and his driver was arrested.
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