Four policemen, who were abducted on June 26 from BJP MP Karia Munda's residence in Khunti district of Jharkhand, were today rescued from a place in the same district, a senior police officer said. Deputy Inspector General of Police A V Homkar said that four policemen were rescued from Diling Bara area in Khunti district this morning.

"All of them are safe," he said. Earlier police had given the number of abducted policemen as three. The constables who were deployed at the house of the BJP leader at Anigada-Chandihdih village were abducted by supporters of Pathalgarhi on June 26. 'Pathalgarhi is reportedly a practice in which villagers inscribe various tenets on huge stone slabs and ban outsiders in the area.