Arrested by all-women police team, suspended JD(S) MP was taken to CID office under tight security
Prajwal Revanna being brought to the CID office. Pic/PTI
As soon as the suspended JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna landed at the Bengaluru airport in the wee hours of Friday, there was a posse of women police personnel led by women IPS officers waiting to execute the arrest warrant against him in sexual assault cases.
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Three cases have been registered against him after a huge cache of leaked videos purportedly showing several women being sexually abused by Prajwal.
The 33-year-old grandson of former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda, who is seeking reelection as an NDA candidate from Hassan, fled the country on April 27 and returned in the early hours of Friday.
Soon after he alighted from the plane from Munich in Germany to Bengauru, he was received by women in Khaki, sources in the SIT said.During the procedure of executing the arrest warrant, he was flanked by the women police who were led by two IPS officers, Suman D Pennekar and Seema Latkar. The Hassan MP was then taken in a jeep in which only women police were there. They took him to the CID office.
Prajwal to give fullest cooperation: Advocate
Suspended JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna, who is facing allegations of sexually abusing several women, was extending full cooperation to the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing cases against him, and has requested that let there be no media trial, his advocate said on Friday. Stating that Prajwal has been arrested in a case registered against him in Holenarasipura in Hassan district, Advocate Arun G said, one has to wait to see what happens to the Hassan MP’s bail application pending before the court. Prajwal was arrested on Friday by the SIT.
SIT to probe Prajwal’s mother Bhavani
The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing suspended JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna, who is facing allegations of sexually abusing several women, has informed his mother Bhavani Revanna that they want to inquire her in a kidnapping case on June 1. In a notice to Bhavani Revanna, the daughter-in-law of former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda, the SIT Inspector and Investigation Officer Hemanth Kumar M said there was a need to conduct an inquiry. “Since there was a need to conduct an inquiry with you, you are hereby informed to be present at ‘Chennambika Nilaya’ (her house) at Holenarasipur in Hassan district on June 1 from 10 am to 5 pm,” SIT Inspector said.
Karnataka HC adjourns petition by Revanna
Karnataka High Court on Friday adjourned the hearing on the petition filed by Prajwal Revanna’s father and MLA HD Revanna for quashing of an FIR related to a kidnapping case until June 3. The case is registered in KR Nagara police station against HD Revanna and others for the alleged abduction of a victim of sexual assault by Prajwal Revanna. HD Revanna was arrested earlier in connection with a kidnapping case on April 29. He was granted conditional bail by a special court for people’s representatives. Meanwhile, Prajwal, who was arrested in the obscene video case and was brought to Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital in Bengaluru for medical examination.
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