It was the Karnataka Excessive Courtroom’s dismissal on Friday of a plea filed by former MP Prajwal Revanna’s mom Bhavani Revanna, in search of a keep on her son’s trial in a rape case filed in opposition to him in 2024, that cleared the way in which for the graduation of the trial.
The trial in one of many 4 rape circumstances registered in opposition to Prajwal in 2024 lastly acquired underway on Friday with the recording of the assertion of the rape survivor in a particular courtroom for elected representatives in Bengaluru.
The assertion of the survivor, who labored as a home assist on the farmhouse of the previous MP when she was allegedly sexually assaulted, was recorded throughout in-camera proceedings within the particular courtroom.
Earlier, Bhavani had approached the Karnataka Excessive Courtroom on Might 1, in search of a keep on the graduation of the trial, which had been mounted for Might 2 by the particular courtroom. The writ petition was filed on the grounds that the particular courtroom had not offered copies of orders by a principal choose for the continuance of the trial within the particular courtroom after Prajwal’s advocate sought a switch of the case.
The plea additionally mentioned that the trial needs to be deferred to permit her son to have interaction a full-fledged defence advocate as a substitute of a state-appointed counsel following the withdrawal of Prajwal’s counsel, M G Arun, on April 23.
Justice Vishwajit Shetty of the Karnataka Excessive Courtroom, nonetheless, dismissed Bhavani’s plea and said that he would challenge an in depth order.
When the trial commenced within the particular courtroom, the rape survivor, who was the primary courtroom witness and prosecution witness, narrated the account of her ordeal to the courtroom.
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Prajwal is accused in 4 circumstances of rape that emerged after movies of a number of alleged sexual assaults surfaced within the public area forward of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls the place he, a JD(S) candidate, was defeated by a Congress candidate in Hassan.
Within the first case the place the trial commenced on Friday, Prajwal has been accused of raping a lady whereas “being able of management or dominance” beneath Indian Penal Code Part 376 (2) (okay)), of sexual harassment, and legal intimidation of the sufferer.
The case was registered on the idea of a grievance filed by a middle-aged girl on Might 8, 2024, after she was rescued from a farmhouse close to Mysuru on Might 5, the place she was allegedly stored in confinement after being recognized in movies of sexual assaults recorded by the MP on his cell phone.
Prajwal was arrested on Might 31, 2024, following his return from Germany, the place he had fled after the movies of the alleged sexual assaults emerged within the public area on April 26, 2024.
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A chargesheet working into 1,632 pages and backed by 113 witnesses was filed within the case in December 2024 by an SIT constituted to analyze the rape circumstances in opposition to the MP.