A former automotive driver of ex-Karnataka MP Prajwal Revanna, an accused in 4 rape and sexual harassment circumstances, has testified in courtroom that he discovered over 2,000 express footage and 40-50 movies of girls on the then Janata Dal (Secular) MP’s telephone.
The motive force, Karthik N, 34, was the whistle blower who facilitated the initiation of a number of circumstances of rape and sexual harassment in opposition to Prajwal final yr.
Karthik, who was initially accused of leaking the movies of Prajwal’s alleged sexual assaults on ladies, instructed a particular courtroom on Monday that he got here throughout the images and movies of the alleged assaults when he secretly checked out Prajwal’s cell phone in Bengaluru in 2019 when the then MP left his telephone in his automotive whereas visiting his girlfriend.t
An in depth confidante of the then Hassan MP until 2022, Karthik instructed the courtroom that he browsed the telephone out of curiosity since Prajwal typically considered his telephone in a secretive method.
“Once I opened the cell phone, I discovered movies which consisted of getting sexual activity by the accused. The videographs and photographs pertained to the JDS social gathering employees, maid servants, and so forth. The cell phone consisted of greater than 2,000 pictures of girls and about 40-50 movies. The movies consisted of almost 30-40 ladies,” he instructed the courtroom.
The motive force mentioned that he downloaded the images and movies to his telephone and later confirmed them to Prajwal’s mom, Bhavani Revanna, the spouse of JD(S) MLA H D Revanna, in an alleged effort to tell them about Prajwal’s actions.
Karthik mentioned that he misplaced the cell phone into which he had transferred the movies and footage–for which he filed a police criticism–however there was a backup of the fabric because it was transferred to an outdated telephone given to him by Prajwal.
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In 2022, Karthik mentioned he had a falling out with Prajwal and his household, leading to circumstances and counter-cases being filed in opposition to one another. In 2023, Prajwal obtained a courtroom order in opposition to the discharge of his non-public movies and footage by Karthik to the media.
In keeping with Karthik, a pen drive of the movies and footage was given to his lawyer, G Devaraje Gowda, a BJP chief who had contested Meeting elections in opposition to H D Revanna within the Hassan area.
Karthik said within the courtroom that the movies and footage of Prajwal, which emerged by means of pen drives distributed within the Hassan constituency forward of the April 26, 2024, Lok Sabha elections in Karnataka, have been the identical ones he had handed to Gowda in a pen drive.
Karthik appeared in courtroom as prosecution witness quantity 10 within the trial of the primary of 4 circumstances of rape and sexual harassment registered by the Particular Investigation Group (SIT) of the Karnataka Police after the specific movies and footage of the alleged sexual assaults by Prajwal emerged within the public area in April 2024.
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The trial within the first case started on Could 2 with a former home employee on the farmhouse of the Revanna household telling the courtroom of Prajwal’s alleged assaults on her. The assertion of the sufferer was recorded throughout in-camera proceedings within the particular courtroom.
The case was registered on the premise of a criticism filed by a girl on Could 8, 2024. The girl 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 Prajwal on his cell phone.
The trial in a second case the place Prajwal is accused of repeatedly assaulting a former JD(S) zilla panchayat employee with threats and coercion is scheduled to start on Could 28.
The previous MP can also be named as an accused in a case of sexual assault on a cook dinner who labored for the Revanna household and the alleged sexual harassment of the cook dinner’s daughter.
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A chargesheet working into 1,632 pages and backed by 113 witnesses was filed within the first case in December 2024 by the SIT constituted to analyze the circumstances in opposition to Prajwal.