A particular classes court docket for circumstances in opposition to elected representatives in Karnataka has ordered the graduation of trial from Wednesday within the first of 4 circumstances of rape filed in opposition to former Member of Parliament Prajwal Revanna final 12 months.
Revanna is the grandson of former prime minister H D Deve Gowda.
The particular court docket issued the order on Saturday for the graduation of trial in a rape case the place the previous Janata Dal (Secular) get together chief Revanna, 35, is accused of utilizing his dominance and energy to sexually assault a home employee employed at his farmhouse in Hassan on a number of events.
The court docket fastened the date for the trial after the Particular Public Prosecutor (SPP) for the case requested it for a similar and filed a memo to summon the witnesses. The court docket additionally issued summons to the survivor within the case to look on Wednesday to current her assertion as the primary court docket witness within the trial.
“Accordingly, as per the request of realized SPP subject summons to CW-1 and CW-8 on 23.04.2025,” the particular court docket said. It additionally issued summons to different witnesses within the case to look on subsequent days.
“It’s made clear that for the reason that accused is being secured from judicial custody (JC), whereby he’s remanded to JC in one other case, no adjournments will probably be granted. Additional the jail authorities are hereby directed to provide the accused earlier than the court docket bodily earlier than this court docket on the following date of listening to,” the particular court docket stated.
The court docket’s order comes within the wake of the April 3 dismissal of a discharge plea filed by Revanna within the case, and the framing of costs of rape in opposition to the previous MP on the identical day in reference to the case.
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In the meantime, Revanna’s advocates have been allowed to proceed perusal of the digital proof that has been collected to border the costs of rape. “If the inspection of the information will not be accomplished in the course of the course of the day, the workplace shall subject a essential physique warrant for manufacturing of the accused bodily earlier than the court docket for inspecting the information on 21.04.2025. For trial, name on 23.04.2025,” the court docket stated.
Former Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna is accused in 4 circumstances of rape that emerged following the emergence of movies of a number of sexual assaults, allegedly dedicated by him, forward of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls which he subsequently misplaced. Revanna was arrested on Might 31, 2024, following his return from Germany the place he had fled after the movies emerged round April 26, 2024.
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