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Third FIR against Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna on allegations of repeated rape

The FIR was registered on 8 May in Bengaluru, with Prajwal Revanna accusations including repeated rape, voyeurism, filming, and threatening.

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Published May 10, 2024 | 10:26 PM ⚊UpdatedMay 10, 2024 | 10:26 PM

Prajwal Revanna

One more rape case has been registered against JD(S) MP and Lok Sabha poll candidate from Hassan Prajwal Revanna, taking the number of cases pertaining to the alleged sexual abuse of several women to three, police sources said.

The FIR was registered against Prajwal on 8 May in Bengaluru, according to sources in the Special Investigation Team which was constituted for a probe after a huge cache of explicit videos allegedly showing Prajwal sexually abusing several women became public.

A case has been registered under IPC Sections 376(2)(N), 376(2)(K), 354(A), 354(B), 354(C), and 506. These cases pertain to repeated rape, voyeurism, filming, demand for sexual favours, dragging by clothes, molestation, and threatening.

The details of the victim have not been shared by the SIT sources.

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Previous FIRs

Prajwal is the grandson of former prime minister and JD(S) supremo HD Deve Gowda and stood for the 26 April Lok Sabha election in Hassan as the NDA candidate. His party had formed an alliance with BJP in 2023.

Just before the election, the videos went viral on social media.

The first FIR pertained to the molestation of his cook in Holenarasipura in Hassan. Prajwal’s father and Holenarasipura MLA HD Revanna is also an accused in the case.

The second case pertains to raping a JD(S) worker at gunpoint.

HD Revanna is already lodged in the Central Jail at Parappara Agrahara under judicial custody after a 20-year-old youth alleged that Revanna and his aide kidnapped his mother.

The youth said his mother had figured in one of the videos where she was allegedly tied and raped by Prajwal.

The Hassan MP is at large and is believed to be hiding abroad. A Blue Corner notice of the Interpol seeking information on his whereabouts has been issued against Prajwal.

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