BSF soldier on duty in J&K claims land grab back home in Telangana’s Siddipet

Boora Rama Swamy releases a video appealing to the public to circulate the video until the issue reaches Chief Minister Revanth Reddy

Siddipet: A Border Security Force (BSF) soldier from the district, who has been discharging duties in Jammu and Kashmir, has released a video alleging that some villagers had illegally transferred his family’s land on their name at Chowdarpally village in Akberpet-Bhumpally mandal.

The soldier Boora Rama Swamy, who has been working with BSF since 2013, has appealed to the public to circulate the video until the issue reaches Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy. He also urged the Chief Minister to resolve the issue. With the video going viral, several people have responded on social media platforms, urging the government to resolve the issue immediately and seeking stern action against the culprits.

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Collector M Manu Chowdary has ordered Akberpet-Bhumpally Tahsildar to carry out an inquiry into the issue. The MRO visited the village and spoke to the villagers and found that the soldier’s statement was true. Since the Collector sought an immediate report on the issue, the MRO was preparing a ‘panchnama’ report, which would be submitted to the Collector.

Speaking to ‘Telangana Today’, Rama Swamy’s younger brother Chandu said his father Boora Venkataiah had bought 24 guntas of land from Karinakonda Sattavva and 32 guntas located in survey number 406 from Kadaru Lakshmaiah in 1992. However, the village VRA Chukka Ramesh, whose family owns a piece of land in the same survey number, managed to transfer 1.16 guntas of land of Venkataiah on to Ramesh’s mother Chukka Narsavva’s name in 2006-07.

They realised that the land was removed from their father’s name when the BRS government launched the Rythu Bandhu scheme in 2018. Since they did not get the benefit, Chandu said they had visited the MRO office and found the land was transferred in Narsavva’s name. Narsavva later transferred the land to her three sons and two grandsons.

Despite repeated appeals to transfer the land in Venkataiah’s name, they did not respond, Chandu said, adding that they had spoken to Ramesh’s family members multiple times in this regard. Officials too had neglected their complaints, forcing Rama Swamy to release the video, Chandu said.

Rama Swamy, who used to discharge duties on the Bangladesh-India border until a month ago, was transferred and posted on the India-Pakistan border days before India launched Operation Sindoor.