According to police, a woman was kidnapped from Kodumuja village in Telangana’s Rajanna Sircilla district after her son Pallapu Srinivas failed to honor his business deal to return to sugarcane farms in Maharashtra. The kidnapping took place on Wednesday in Vemulawada Mandal in Rajanna Sircilla district but came to light the next day.

According to IANS, Srinivas had accepted an advance of Rs 3 lakh from a sugarcane farmer named Lalu Diwakar in Maharashtra to work on the farm where he spent three months before returning to his village recently.

When Srinivas did not return to Maharashtra as expected, a group of people associated with Diwakar arrived in Kodununja on Wednesday to find him. They questioned local residents about his whereabouts before reaching his home. Unable to find Srinivas there, the group demanded repayment of the advance from his family, including his mother, wife and children.

Family members, unaware of any agreement, were unable to meet the group’s demands. The group then asked Srinivas’ wife to accompany them, but when she refused and locked herself in a room, the kidnappers forced Srinivas’ mother into a car and took her away.

In the video shared by Telugu Scribe on channel X and recorded on a mobile phone, two women are seen among the kidnappers. Srinivas’ children cry as they witness their grandmother being kidnapped.

The kidnappers initially traveled by a Road Transport Company bus, but later rented a locally registered car, possibly indicating a planned operation to avoid interference at the state border.

The vehicle used reportedly had Telangana registration, which could have helped the kidnappers evade suspicion while crossing state borders, the report said.

Srinivas agreed to work for Diwakar and accepted an advance of 3 lakh rupees. However, after working there for three months, he left Maharashtra and returned to his village. Diwakar’s efforts to contact him over phone went unanswered and Srinivas later went to his brother’s house in Odisha.