An abducted government high school principal was on Sunday rescued from a hideout in the Kharagpur area in Bihar’s Munger district, a police officer said.

A joint team of the Munger police and the Special Task Force (STF) rescued Subodh Sah, principal of the government high school in Baijalpur village, from a hideout located between Ladaiya and Kharagpur villages, Superintendent of Police Varun Kumar Sinha said.

The 50-year-old Sah was kidnapped for ransom on Saturday from his government residence by seven members of the Ranjan Bind gang and taken to a hilly village where he was kept for 24 hours, Mr. Sinha said.

The hideout of the abductors was tracked through surveillance of the mobile phones of the gang members who specialised in kidnapping of teachers, the SP said.

Two detained



Two abductors had been detained for questioning, the police official said.