BENGALURU: The Particular Investigation Crew from the Legal Investigation Division (CID), probing the alleged intercourse scandal involving former JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna and his father HD Revanna, Friday filed a preliminary chargesheet in opposition to the father-son duo with the particular courtroom for elected representatives within the metropolis.
Nonetheless, the courtroom is but to take cognizance of the chargesheet.The chargesheet runs into 2,144 pages and comprises statements from 150 witnesses. Whereas Revanna, who can also be an MLA, has been charged with sexually harassing a home assist at his Holenarasipura house for 3 years since 2019, Prajwal is going through costs of raping the identical lady at their Basavanagudi residence in Bengaluru.
The identical chargesheet additionally accuses Prajwal of creating video calls to the maid’s daughter, forcing her to strip whereas he clicked her photos on his cell phone.
Within the FIR filed by the girl on April 28 this yr with Holenarsipur police, Revanna was arraigned as accused no. 1, adopted by Prajwal.
Within the chargesheet, SIT had charged Prajwal with destruction of proof beneath the then IPC Part 201, stating: “Prajwal had recorded on his cell phone his sexual assault on the girl complainant at his Bengaluru residence. Equally, he had taken screenshots of a video name made to the maid’s daughter, the place she was pressured to take away her garments.”
“When the allegations surfaced, accused Prajwal destroyed the movies and photos and fled to a international nation,” the chargesheet additional stated. The CID hooked up authentic studies from FSL that had retrieved the deleted photos and movies from Prajwal’s telephone.
In keeping with the complainant, the girl complainant is a distant relative of Bhavani Revanna, spouse of HD Revanna, and she or he was invited by Revanna to work at his family. In 2015, Revanna helped her get the job of a cook dinner at a ladies’s hostel in Holenarasipur. Thereafter, in 2019, she joined Revanna’s family. “On the time of becoming a member of [the Revanna household], the opposite staffers had warned me about Revanna and Prajwal misbehaving with their ladies workers. Each time Bhavani was away, Revanna would repeatedly name me to his room, contact me inappropriately, and disrobe me. Whereas working within the kitchen, Prajwal would grope me from behind and ask me to get my daughter to do an oil therapeutic massage for him,” the girl stated.
“Prajwal would make video calls to my daughter and communicate abusively. Once I needed to file a criticism in regards to the sexual harassment, the staff on the family discouraged me, warning that I would be branded a thief,” she stated.
