A woman was kidnapped from Kodumunja village in Telangana's Rajanna Sircilla district after her son, Pallapu Srinivas, did not fulfill his work agreement to return to sugarcane farms in Maharashtra, according to police. The abduction occurred on Wednesday in Vemulawada mandal, Rajanna Sircilla district, but came to light the following day. 

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

When Srinivas did not return to Maharashtra as expected, a group of people associated with Diwakar arrived in Kodumunja on Wednesday to locate 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. 

The family members, unaware of any agreement, could not meet the group’s demands. The group then asked Srinivas’s wife to accompany them, but when she refused and locked herself in a room, the abductors forcibly took Srinivas's mother away in a car. 

A video, shared by Telugu Scribe on X, captured on a mobile phone shows two women among the abductors, while Srinivas’s children are seen crying as they witness their grandmother being taken.

The abductors initially traveled by a Road Transport Corporation bus but later hired a locally registered car, likely to avoid interception at the state border, indicating a planned operation. 

The vehicle used bore Telangana registration, which may have reportedly helped the abductors evade suspicion while crossing state lines, as per the report.

Srinivas had agreed to work for Diwakar and accepted an advance of Rs 3 lakh. However, after working there for three months, he left Maharashtra, returning to his village. Efforts by Diwakar to contact him by phone went unanswered, and Srinivas later traveled to his brother’s residence in Odisha.