Mohali, Nov. 7 -- Two days after a vernacular news channel journalist was kidnapped from outside his office in Nayagaon, police rescued him from Kotkapura in Faridkot and arrested a nihang in connection with the abduction.

A payment dispute is believed to have triggered the kidnapping.

The victim, Gurpiyar Singh, who works as a news anchor and producer with Hamdard Media TV, was forcibly taken away by three men around 7 pm on November 4 from outside his office in Shivalik Vihar, Nayagaon.

His sister, Manpreet Kaur, had told police that the three men dressed in nihang attire arrived in a Ritz car, called her brother outside his office and abducted him.

On her complaint, an FIR was lodged and multiple teams were constituted, said Mohali...