Teacher rescued, four held in kidnapping case

Patna: Patna police rescued a govt school teacher and arrested four accused, including the alleged mastermind, after solving a kidnapping case linked to a financial dispute.Police said the teacher, Upendra Kumar Singh, posted in Nabinagar, Aurangabad, was abducted from Ara and taken towards Sasaram over an alleged unpaid loan of Rs 13 lakh.SDPO Saket Kumar said, “Upendra, who is originally from Palamu in Jharkhand and lives with his family in AG Colony in Patna, was kidnapped from a hotel in Ara. He went to Ara on June 28 after a female friend called him.”