H D Revanna booked for kidnapping as house help allegedly raped by Prajwal Revanna disappears
HD Revanna
Janata Dal (Secular) MLA H D Revanna was booked on Thursday (May 3) by police for kidnapping an alleged victim of sexual abuseby his sonPrajwal Revanna, who is the MP of Hassan and the candidate of the BJP-led NDA in this Lok Sabha election.
The politician was booked after a 20-year-old man filed a police complaint alleging that Revanna’s associate abducted his mother, who was among the many women featured in the alleged sex tapes of Revanna’s son, JD(S) MP Prajwal.
The police filed charges against Revanna and Satish Babanna, a resident of Krishnarajanagara taluk in Mysore district, under various sections of the Indian Penal Code, including those related to kidnapping.H D Revanna applied for anticipatory bail in the sexual harassment case just hours after the FIR was filed.
The incident, detailed in the first information report (FIR), happened on April 29. The woman had previously worked at Revanna’s residence and farmhouse in Holenarasipura for six years before quitting three years ago to work as a daily wager in her hometown.
What does the FIR say?
According to the FIR, a few days before the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections in Karnataka on April 26, Babanna visited the woman's residence and claimed that Revanna’s wife Bhavani required her assistance for some tasks.
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Later, Babanna allegedly cautioned the family not to involve the police if they came to their residence and threatened them with legal action. On April 29, around 9 am, Babanna returned, warning the family that the woman would be implicated in a case if caught by the police. He then took her with him, stating that Revanna had summoned her, as detailed by the woman’s son in the FIR.
“While I was looking for my mother, on May 1, a couple of my friends asked about my mother featured in the alleged sex tapes of Prajwal. I called Satish over the phone to check the whereabouts of my mother and he said that a case had been registered against her and she had to get bail”,the FIR read.
Earlier, Prajwal was accused of sexually assaulting his house help and has fled the country. The state government has formed a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigate the matter. Explicit videos, reportedly featuring the 33-year-old MP began to circulate in Hassan recently.
