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JD(S) leader HD Revanna was taken into custody by SIT officials in connection with a kidnapping case registered against him at KR Nagar police station, in Bengaluru.
Janata Dal (Secular) party leader HD Revanna was on Saturday (May 4) taken into custody by Special Investigation Team (SIT) officials in Karnataka in connection with a kidnapping case registered against him.
The development came following a special court for People’s Representatives in Bengaluru rejected the interim bail application of the JD(S) leader and his son JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna over the alleged “obscene videos” case.
Justice Santosh Gajanana Bhat’s bench of the court rejected the interim bail plea of both the Janata Dal (Secular) leaders on Saturday.
The former minister was arrested from the Padmanabhanagar residence of his father, JD(S) chief and former prime minister HD Deve Gowda and brought to the SIT office.
The action was taken by the police on the basis of a complaint that was filed by the son of the woman who was allegedly “abducted and sexually abused”.
The FIR alleged that the woman who worked as a housemaid at HD Revanna’s home for six years was sexually abused by Revanna’s son Prajwal, who is also the Lok Sabha candidate for BJP-JD(S) from the Hassan constituency, before returning to her village, was allegedly abducted.
The case was registered against Revanna and former minister and his confidant Sathish Babanna in Mysuru, who already has been arrested in the case.
The woman was allegedly kidnapped so as to prevent her from testifying against Prajwal, reported news agency PTI citing police sources.
The police officials on Saturday rescued the abducted woman from a farmhouse that is said to be owned by an aide of Revanna. It was located at Kalenahalli village in Hunsur taluk of Mysuru district.
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.
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. 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.
(With inputs from agencies)
