Bengaluru: Prajwal Revanna, the accused in the Karnataka sex scandal case, has been arrested. Prajwal Revanna has returned from Germany after about 34 days. As soon as he arrived at Bengaluru’s Kempegowda International Airport, SIT arrested him. Prajwal Revanna is accused of sexually exploiting many women. There was a lot of uproar over the Karnataka sex scandal. Revanna has now been suspended from the party by JDS. He came to the country on Thursday night at around 1 am by Lufthansa flight LH0764. As soon as he came from Germany, he was arrested by the SIT team from the airport at night.
The SIT team will now interrogate him and he will be produced in court today. A day earlier, a Bengaluru court had rejected the anticipatory bail plea of Prajwal Revanna in the rape and sexual abuse case. Prajwal is the grandson of JD (S) supremo and former Prime Minister HD Devegowda. Revanna left the country on April 27, six days after being accused of sexual harassment and a day after voting in the Hassan Lok Sabha seat. Revanna flew to Munich on his diplomatic passport. He has returned to Bengaluru after about 34 days. He will be produced in court today.
Prajwal is the MP from Hassan seat
Prajwal Revanna is an MP from Hassan Lok Sabha seat in Karnataka and is contesting elections this time too. Just a month after going abroad, on 27 May, MP Prajwal Revanna had said that he will appear before the SIT i.e. Special Investigation Team on 31 May. The SIT is investigating the allegations of sexual abuse against Revanna by several women. Revanna has called the sexual abuse cases against him false and part of a political conspiracy. He says that due to this he has gone into depression.
SERT had sought help from Interpol
In fact, Prajwal had allegedly gone to Germany on 27 April, a day after the voting for the Hassan Lok Sabha seat. The SIT had sought information about Prajwal’s whereabouts from Interpol through the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), for which Interpol has issued a ‘Blue Corner Notice’. A special court constituted to hear cases against MPs/MLAs had issued an arrest warrant against Prajwal Revanna on 18 May after the SIT filed an application.
demand for cancellation of passport
The Congress-led Karnataka government has urged the Centre to cancel his diplomatic passport, although it has said that no official response has been received from the central government on the matter yet. The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) had sent a show cause notice to Prajwal asking why his diplomatic passport should not be cancelled in view of the allegations of sexual harassment against him.
Tags: Bengaluru news, Karnataka News
FIRST PUBLISHED : May 31, 2024, 06:42 IST