In a serious setback for the previous JD(S) MP, the Supreme Courtroom on Monday dismissed the bail plea of Prajwal Revanna, who faces costs of rape and sexual assault.
A Supreme Courtroom bench, consisting of Justices Bela M Trivedi and Satish Chandra Sharma, rejected Revanna’s bail plea in the course of the listening to on November 11, observing that he’s a really influential individual and his bail may doubtless compromise the investigation within the case.
Showing for Revanna, senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi stated {that a} cost sheet has been filed within the case and part 376 of the IPC was not there within the preliminary criticism.
Nonetheless, the apex courtroom stated that it couldn’t intervene with the Karnataka Excessive Courtroom’s October 21 determination denying him bail. Revanna’s counsel sought the approval to method the courtroom after six months, however the bench stated that it couldn’t say something about that and dismissed the plea.
In August, a Particular Investigation Workforce (SIT) of Karnataka which is probing 4 circumstances of sexual assault and harassment in opposition to Revanna submitted a 2,144-page cost sheet.
The cost sheet filed by the SIT is linked to a case by which the previous MLA is accused of raping a lady, who labored as a home assist for his household. There are two rape circumstances in opposition to the JD(S) chief and a sexual assault case.
The controversy started when movies exhibiting Prajwal Revanna sexually assaulting a number of ladies began surfacing on April 23, simply days earlier than polling in Hassan Lok Sabha constituency.
Revanna left for Germany on April 27, a day after the polls in his constituency, simply because the probe within the sexual assault case commenced. The JD(S) chief lastly returned to India on Could 31 after appeals from ex-PM HD Deve Gowda, and was arrested.
Prajwal Revanna is the son of Holenarasipura JD(S) MLA H D Revanna and grandson of former prime minister H D Deve Gowda. H D Revanna was additionally arrested in an assault and kidnapping case linked to his son, however was granted bail.
(With inputs from PTI)
