The trial of former member of Parliament Prajwal Revanna, in one of many 4 rape circumstances registered towards him in 2024, acquired underway on Friday with the recording of the assertion of the rape sufferer in a particular courtroom for elected representatives in Bengaluru.
The assertion of the sufferer, who labored as a home assist on the farmhouse of the previous MP when she was allegedly sexually assaulted, was recorded throughout in digicam proceedings within the particular courtroom. A display was used to partition the sufferer from the view of the accused.
The display was positioned “in entrance of the accused from the morning session itself to make sure that the complainant is not going to be petrified by seeing the accused,” the particular courtroom famous.
The sufferer advised the courtroom that “she requires safety and likewise means for her livelihood since her picture has been tarnished in society.”
After the sufferer accomplished her assertion, the amicus curiae, appointed by the particular courtroom after the withdrawal of Prajwal Revanna’s defence counsel final week, didn’t cross-examine the sufferer, preferring to postpone the cross-examination to a later date.
“The discovered amicus curiae has requested the courtroom to defer the cross examination on the bottom that she is going to conduct the cross examination along with that of CW-8 (courtroom witness) who’s the son of the sufferer,” the particular courtroom famous.
When the trial commenced on Friday, the particular public prosecutor “requested the courtroom to make obligatory association for displaying the video pertaining” to the case.
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The courtroom directed the pc department of the judiciary to make obligatory preparations for displaying the video. The sexual assault on the sufferer was allegedly recorded by the previous MP on his cellular digicam, and the video is among the many key items of proof within the case.
On April 29, the particular courtroom had rejected a plea by Prajwal Revanna for postponement of the trial to permit him to nominate a brand new defence counsel. Rejecting the postponement plea, the particular courtroom had famous, “The idea of honest trial not solely contains the proper of (the) accused but in addition the proper of the sufferer can also be required to be thought of and (a) stability is required to be made.”
The particular courtroom has requested the chief authorized help officer of the District Authorized Companies Authority (DLSA) to help the defence of the previous MP, who’s the grandson of the previous prime minister H D Deve Gowda, after Prajwal Revanna claimed he had not appointed a defence counsel as but.
The particular courtroom had earlier mounted April 23 because the date for the beginning of the trial in a case the place Prajwal Revanna is accused of raping a home employee – who was employed at his farmhouse.
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Regardless of the sufferer showing in courtroom on April 23 to supply her statements as a prosecution witness, the trial couldn’t start as Prajwal Revanna’s advocate accused the courtroom of bias towards his shopper, and when a switch of the case was not granted, he withdrew from the case.
The particular courtroom had subsequently requested Prajwal Revanna to avail the providers of DLSA to defend him within the rape case however the former MP rejected the request and sought extra time to nominate a defence counsel of his personal alternative.
“Although the discovered advocate of DLSA is current earlier than the courtroom, the accused has refused to avail the providers of the panel advocate. As such it solely signifies that the accused is to dodge and delay the proceedings,” the particular courtroom noticed on Tuesday.
The courtroom was knowledgeable by particular public prosecutors that the Supreme Courtroom has mandated that the trial in circumstances of sexual offences should be accomplished inside two months from the date of submitting of the chargesheet.
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The chargesheet within the case the place Prajwal Revanna is accused of sexually assaulting a home employee employed at his household’s farmhouse was filed by a Particular Investigation Workforce of the Karnataka Police in December 2024, and the fees have been framed on April 3, 2025.
Former MP Prajwal Revanna is accused in 4 circumstances of rape that emerged after movies of a number of sexual assaults surfaced within the public area forward of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls – the place Prajwal Revanna of the Janata Dal (Secular) was defeated by a Congress candidate in Hassan.
Within the first case the place the trial commenced on Friday, Prajwal Revanna has been charged of committing rape of a lady whereas “being ready of management or dominance” underneath Indian Penal Code (IPC) Part 376 (2) (okay).
A chargesheet operating into 1,632 pages and backed by 113 witnesses was filed final 12 months by an SIT constituted to analyze the rape circumstances towards the MP.
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The case was registered on the premise of a grievance filed by a middle-aged girl on Could 8, 2024, after she was rescued on Could 5 from a farmhouse close to Mysuru the place she was allegedly saved in confinement after being recognized in movies of sexual assaults recorded by the MP on his cell phone.
Prajwal Revanna was arrested on Could 31, 2024, following his return from Germany, the place he had allegedly fled after the movies of sexual assaults emerged within the public area on April 26, 2024.