Barricades set up in Lal Chowk during lockdown in Srinagar, on July 13, 2020.

Barricades established in Lal Chowk throughout lockdown in Srinagar, on July 13, 2020.|Image Credit:
Nissar Ahmad.

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Mehrajudin Malla was kidnapped in Sopore.

A municipality committee vice-president associated to the BJP, who was abducted by unidentified individuals in Baramulla on Wednesday morning, was rescued later on in the day by the cops.

” The abducted BJP leader has actually been saved,” Inspector-General Police of Kashmir Vijay Kumar told The Hindu late in the evening. The information of the rescue operation were not provided but the police stated militants were behind the kidnapping of Mehrajuddin Malla.

Earlier in the day, BJP spokesman Altaf Thakur said: “BJP leader Mehrajuddin Malla was walking on the roadway, outside his residence, when a car stopped and unidentified men bundled him in. T