Prajwal Revanna Rape Case: A particular courtroom for elected representatives in Bengaluru on Saturday sentenced former Janata Dal (Secular) MP Prajwal Revanna, 34, to life Imprisonment in one in all 4 rape circumstances registered towards him in Karnataka’s Hassan district in 2024.
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Particular classes courtroom decide Santhosh Gajanan Bhat pronounced the order on Saturday following the previous Hassan MP’s conviction on Friday beneath sections 376(2)(okay) (able of management or dominance over a lady), 376(2)(n) (repeated rape), 354A (sexual harassment), 354B (assault to disrobe), 354C (capturing photographs), 506 (prison intimidatin), 201 (disappearance of proof) of the Indian Penal Code and beneath Part 66(E) of Info Expertise Act 2008.
Prajwal, the grandson of former prime minister H D Deve Gowda and the son of the previous Karnataka minister H D Revanna, was convicted of raping a lady who labored as a home employee in a farm home owned by his household whereas “being able of management or dominance”.
The previous MP has been in jail since Could 31, 2024, when he was arrested on his return from Germany the place he had fled after the emergence of specific movies of sexual assaults on girls. The movies, reportedly recorded by him on his cell phone, have been leaked forward of the April 26, 2024 Parliament election in Hassan the place Prajwal was the candidate for the JDS-BJP alliance.
Aside from video recordings of the sexual assault, a Particular Investigation Crew (SIT) of the Karnataka Police, constituted to analyze the allegations, was aided by a DNA evaluation report of hair follicles and residual physique fluids discovered on a garment worn by the sufferer on the day she was assaulted. A match was discovered between the DNA samples collected from the MP and the DNA discovered on the garment.
The sufferer, who had been thrown out of labor after the sexual assault incident, had left her garments behind within the servant quarters on the farmhouse. The garments and different materials have been recovered throughout a search by the SIT, and subjected to forensic evaluation. A DNA match was discovered for the accused from a petticoat of the sufferer.
The conviction of Prajwal Revanna on Friday got here on the finish of a trial that started on Could 2 with the recording of the assertion of the rape survivor. The chargesheet within the case was filed in December 2024 and the fees have been framed on April 3, 2025.
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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.
A former automotive driver of Prajwal was the whisteblower within the case. Karthik N, 34, testified in courtroom through the trial and mentioned that he discovered over 2,000 specific footage and 40-50 movies of sexual incidents on the telephone of the then MP.
The trial in a second case the place Prajwal Revanna is accused of repeatedly assaulting a former JDS zilla panchayat employee with threats and coercion is presently underway, with the husband of the sufferer, additionally a JDS employee, recording his assertion not too long ago.
The previous MP can be accused in a case of sexual assault on a prepare dinner who labored for the Revanna household and the alleged sexual harassment of the prepare dinner’s daughter.
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Prajwal’s household has, in the meantime, alleged a political conspiracy involving the ruling Congress occasion in a bid to interrupt the Revanna household’s stranglehold on the Hassan parliamentary seat. In final 12 months’s polls, Prajwal misplaced the Hassan Lok Sabha seat to the Congress amid the allegations.