Kathmandu, July 10 - Amid increasing incidents of lynchings triggered by suspicions of kidnapping, Nepal police Friday said they had rescued an abducted young woman who was being taken across the border to India.

Isha Bhattarai, from Jhapa district on the Indo-Nepal border and a second-year student in the Padma Kanya Campus, was abducted from a busy area of the capital Thursday while she was going to college, police said.

The young woman told police she was surrounded by a group of people who overpowered her and gagged her with a cloth that probably contained chloroform or a similar substance.

The powerless student was then reportedly loaded into a van from the Dilli Bazar area where she had been staying with relatives.

Police rescued her Thursday night from Amlekhganj in the border district of Bara. She was being taken to Birgunj town in the Indo-Nepal border.

The incident occurred even as Nepal's new government tabled its policies and programmes for the financial year in parliament Thursday, pledging to improve the security situation and impose severe punishment to deter kidnappings.