Last month, a video showing a 26-year-old Indian Army Jawan Sappeta Swamy from Telangana is talking about threats to his family over a land grabbing case had gone viral. Two weeks after the video was widely shared, Swamy’s 48-year-old father, Sappeta Sai Reddy, has gone missing from his village Chityal, in Tadwai Mandal of Kamareddy district.
His family suspects that he was kidnapped by the same people who had grabbed their agricultural land of six acres.
Swamy, who returned from his posting in Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, 3 July, to look for his missing father, released another video in which he said, “Earlier, I had released a video in which I talked about the threat to my mother and father from people who have grabbed our land. I had already said that they were threatening my parents. It’s been hardly 15-20 days since the video was released and my father is missing now.”