Former JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna has moved the Karnataka Excessive Court docket towards his conviction final month in one of many rape instances filed towards him, whereby a particular courtroom for legislators awarded him a life sentence. Revanna is difficult the conviction on grounds together with alleged inconsistencies within the proof.
Revanna, the previous Hassan MP, has been in custody since his arrest in Might final yr on getting back from Germany, the place he had fled after a number of movies surfaced allegedly displaying him sexually assaulting girls. Other than the life sentence imposed on him, the courtroom has additionally ordered the fee of Rs 11.25 lakh collected as fines to the lady. She was sexually assaulted whereas working as a home employee on the farmhouse of Revanna’s household.
The Particular Investigation Staff had relied on video proof in addition to DNA evaluation of hair follicles and residual physique fluid discovered on a garment worn by the lady on the day that she was assaulted.
Revanna’s petition towards the conviction argues that the precise proof supplied by the lady is contradictory to the contents of the police grievance. The petition additionally raises a number of contentions relating to inconsistencies within the proof, equivalent to questions as to how stains on a mattress might stay when examined in Might 2024 with out having been cleaned, when the alleged incident had occurred between January 2021 and the tip of January 2022.
Different questions by Revanna’s petition associated to the delay in lodging the grievance in addition to the truth that the lady had attended a housewarming ceremony on the farmhouse premises in 2023.
Final Wednesday, the Karnataka Excessive Court docket dismissed a petition filed by Revanna searching for the switch of two instances away from the choose listening to the matter on the grounds of alleged bias.
A date for Revanna’s newest petition to be heard has not but been set.