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In a new case against Janata Dal (Secular) MP Prajwal Revanna, the former zilla panchayat member is accused of sexually abusing her over three years and recording videos of him blackmailing and threatening her. I made an accusation. The FIR was registered by Karnataka's Criminal Investigation Department (CID) after a woman in her 40s recorded a statement with the Special Investigation Team (SIT). According to the FIR, the woman was visiting her MLAs and MPs to obtain funds for development activities in the area. In the complaint, the woman alleges that she was raped and sexually abused multiple times between January 1, 2021 and April 25, 2024. The Criminal Investigation Department registered a case on May 1.
The petitioner allegedly met Prajwal to secure a place for the girl student in a government-run hostel. “In 2021, I visited Prajwal Revanna to do some work at Parliament House. He asked me to go to the ground floor where many women were waiting for him. Ground floor After talking to the people, he came to the first floor and talked to other women. Eventually I was left alone and he asked me to come to his room," she said in the complaint. argued. "He pulled me into the room by the hand and closed the door. When I asked him why he had closed the door, he told me to sit on the bed and said my husband was talking too much. He also said that my mother missed out on an MLA ticket because of my husband's interference. He told me that if I wanted to grow politically, I had to listen to him." the woman claimed in a statement.
“Then he asked me to take my clothes off. I refused and threatened to scream for help. But he had a gun and threatened me if I didn't leave her husband and me," she claimed. Prajwal reportedly recorded a video on his mobile phone of the woman removing her clothes before raping her. She claimed the woman "threatened to release the video if I released it to anyone else." (Using these videos) he video-called me and asked me to take off his clothes. He raped me several times,'' she said, adding that she had not filed a complaint earlier due to fear but decided to come forward now as an SIT was set up to investigate the charges against Mr Prajwal. Told.
The SIT, which is probing the sexual abuse allegations against Mr. Prajwal, had issued the circular after he failed to appear before the SIT after the notice was served on Tuesday. On Wednesday, Prajwal, the grandson of JD(S) founder and former chief minister HD Deve Gowda, sought to appear before a seven-day probe team. The SIT also issued a notice to her father HD Revanna, who was named as an accused following an earlier complaint by the woman.
