A particular court docket in Bengaluru has scheduled to start out the trial of former MP Prajwal Revanna on Might 28 within the second of 4 rape instances filed in opposition to him. The trial within the first case in opposition to the Hassan MP started earlier than the particular court docket on Might 2.
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Within the second case, Revanna, 33, is accused of sexually assaulting a former member of Hassan zilla panchayat who approached him for official favours. The fees, together with rape, had been framed on April 22, following which Revanna pleaded not responsible and sought a trial. He engaged an advocate for his defence on Might 5.
Final week, the particular court docket issued summons for the looks of the primary batch of witnesses within the case, together with the survivor of the alleged sexual assault, on Might 28 to facilitate the beginning of the trial. “Within the meantime, problem a recent physique warrant in opposition to the accused for his manufacturing bodily earlier than the court docket on the following date of listening to. For trial, name on 28.05.2025,” the court docket stated.
In September 2024, a Particular Investigation Workforce (SIT) of the Karnataka Police filed a chargesheet in opposition to the previous Janata Dal (Secular) MP for repeatedly raping the zilla panchayat member and sexually harassing her over three years. The girl stated he recorded movies of the act, and blackmailed her into cooperating along with his calls for.
Revanna was charged beneath Indian Penal Code sections 376(2) (n) (repeated rape), 506 (prison intimidation), 354(A) (1) (ii) (demanding sexual favours), 354(B) (assault of lady), 354 (C) (voyeurism), and 201 (destruction of proof), apart from beneath part 66 (E) (video recording and sharing) of the Info Know-how Act.
On Might 2, the Karnataka Excessive Court docket dismissed a plea filed by Revanna’s mom Bhavani which sought a keep on the trial on the grounds that that they had not been capable of interact an advocate and that the trial court docket had been unfair. The court docket rejected Bhavani’s plea by declaring that the Revanna household had sufficient means to interact a lawyer.
“On the guise of denial of truthful trial if an try is made to stall the proceedings, such deliberate makes an attempt should be handled iron arms…,” Justice Vishwajith Shetty stated in his order.
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Different instances in opposition to Prajwal Revanna
Within the first case of rape in opposition to Prajwal Revanna, through which the trial commenced on Might 2 after the excessive court docket order, the previous MP is accused of a number of sexual assaults on a lady who was employed as a home employee at his residence. Revanna can also be accused of sexually assaulting a cook dinner who labored for the household, and sexually harassing the cook dinner’s daughter.
Prajwal Revanna, in opposition to whom prices of rape emerged on the finish of April 2024 following the leak of express movies and pictures by means of pen drives distributed in Hassan forward of the Lok Sabha polls on April 26, was arrested on Might 31 following his return from Germany.
An SIT was constituted by the Karnataka authorities to probe the allegations. The previous MP has been in jail since Might 31, 2024, following his arrest.
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