The Karnataka Excessive Court docket on Monday dismissed three bail pleas filed by Prajwal Revanna, 33, the rape accused former Janata Dal (Secular) MP for the Hassan constituency.
The previous MP had sought bail in three circumstances of rape the place chargesheets have been filed over the previous two months by a Particular Investigation Staff of the police. The excessive court docket reserved its orders on the bail pleas on September 19. On Monday, a bench headed by Justice M Nagaprasanna rejected the pleas.
Within the first of the three circumstances, wherein a chargesheet was filed in opposition to Prajwal Revanna on August 23 by the SIT, the previous MP is accused of sexually assaulting a cook dinner who labored for his household and allegedly sexually harassing the cook dinner’s daughter throughout video telephone calls.
Within the second case, wherein a chargesheet was filed on September 9, Prajwal Revanna, who’s the son of H D Revanna, the JD(S) MLA for Holenarasipura in Hassan, is accused of raping a home employee at his farm whereas “being ready of management or dominance” over the girl, a cost beneath Indian Penal Code part 376 (2) (ok).
The center-aged sufferer was rescued on Could 5 from a farmhouse close to Mysuru the place she was allegedly saved in confinement by the MP’s household, after being recognized in movies of sexual assaults on ladies recorded by the MP on his cell phone.
A 3rd chargesheet for the offence of rape and sexual harassment was filed on September 13 in opposition to the previous JD(S) MP for allegedly raping a zilla panchayat member of his constituency repeatedly over a three-year interval.
The previous MP can be accused of sexually harassing a number of ladies in a fourth case, which is pending.
Prajwal Revanna, in opposition to whom expenses of rape emerged on the finish of April, following the leak of express movies and pictures by means of pen drives distributed in Hassan forward of the April 26 Lok Sabha polls, wherein he was the NDA candidate, was arrested on Could 31, after his return from Germany, the place he had travelled the day after the movies emerged.
An SIT was constituted by the Karnataka Authorities to probe the sexual assault movies that have been allegedly accessed from Prajwal Revanna’s telephone by a automotive driver and leaked to his political rivals. As many as 2,900 information with movies and pictures from the previous MP’s sexual encounters have been discovered on the leaked pen drives.
In one of many leaked movies, a middle-aged lady was seen pleading with the then MP to not assault her. Evaluation of the movies through the investigation has revealed that they’re real.
Prajwal Revanna has been additionally charged beneath part 66E of the Data Expertise Act for recording and sharing the assaults on ladies and for the destruction of proof. Forensic reviews have established the previous MP’s involvement within the offence, the SIT has said.
Prajwal Revanna has been in jail since Could 31. Three circumstances of rape and one case of sexual harassment have been filed by ladies allegedly assaulted by the previous MP.
