“Will Be Back In 10 Minutes,” Said Kidnapped Army Personnel Over Phone, Mother Cries; Video Surfaced On Internet

The missing soldier’s family reported that Javaid Ahmad Wani had asked his mother to cook some meals for him to take back to his camp in Ladakh. He told the family over the phone at 8 o’clock that he would be home in five or ten minutes. He had taken an Altocar to the nearby Chawalgam village 30 minutes earlier to get groceries. Army person kidnapped from Kulgam just went out to buy some household goods.

Javaid doesn’t come back home, Army person kidnapped

He didn’t return until 8.30 p.m., when his family was notified by neighbours that his car had been left in Paranhall hamlet, close to an orchard.  “The car was unlocked, and we saw mutton, bananas, and a pair of slippers inside the car. There were some bloodstains in the car as well,” the soldier’s father Muhammad Ayoub Wani said Sunday.

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“He is innocent,” cries Wani’s mother

His possible kidnapping by terrorists has been suspected by his family, who has made an appeal for his safe return. Wani’s mother appealed to his alleged kidnappers in a video that went viral on social media.  “Kindly let him go. He is innocent and young. If he has done anything wrong, I seek forgiveness,” she said. Numerous family members, neighbours, and locals were seen on Sunday appealing for Wani’s safe return at his home. Security has begun a thorough search for the soldier.

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Kashmir has a history of soldier abductions

In the past, militants have kidnapped troops and police officers who were not on duty in Kashmir’s southern and central regions. Lashkar-e-Taiba militants kidnapped and murdered J&K Light Infantry soldier Sameer Ahmad Malla in March 2022; his body was later discovered in an orchard in Budgam. A soldier from the Territorial Army named Shakir Manzoor Wagay of Shopian’s decomposing body was discovered in the Kulgam region in September of 2021, more than a year after his kidnapping.