Karnataka: JD(S) MLA Revanna taken into custody by SIT

Bengaluru: Karnataka JD(S) MLA H.D. Revanna, son of former prime minister H.D. Deve Gowda, was taken into custody on Saturday by the Special Investigation Team (SIT), minutes after a court here rejected his anticipatory bail plea in a kidnapping case, officials said.

The former minister was picked up from the Padmanabhanagar residence of his father and brought to the SIT office.

The woman was allegedly abducted to prevent her from testifying against BJP-JD(S) Hassan candidate Prajwal Revanna who faces cases of sexual abuse after several explicit videos surfaced in recent weeks, police sources said.

Police had rescued her from a farmhouse allegedly belonging to an aide of Revanna at Kalenahalli village in Hunsur taluk of Mysuru district.

The case was registered against Revanna, a former minister, and his confidant Sathish Babanna in Mysuru on Thursday night for allegedly abducting the woman.

The case was registered on a complaint filed by the woman's son, who also alleged that his mother was sexually abused by Revanna's son Prajwal Revanna.

Babanna has already been arrested in connection with the case.

Meanwhile after the SIT issued a look-out notice for Prajwal Revanna, sleuths told Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday stated that there was a possibility of the CBI serving a ‘blue corner’ notice against the absconding Hassan Lok Sabha member who is stated to be in Germany. Once the blue corner notice is issued, the investigation in the case will go expeditiously.

The Chief Minister gave directions to the sleuths not to be negligent or cause delay in initiating steps to arrest Prajwal. Sleuths have expressed confidence that they will arrest Prajwal and bring him to the state as soon as they get any tip-off from the airports.

Meanwhile, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in a letter to Siddaramaiah to extend all possible support to the victims stated that he had appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to cancel Prajwal Revanna’s diplomatic passport which he has used to flee the country.

The letter from Rahul Gandhi alleged that the Union government led by the BJP had ‘willfully’ allowed Prajwal to flee. “In my two decades in public life, I have never come across a senior public representative who has constantly chosen silence in the face of untold violence against women. From our wrestlers in Haryana to our sisters in Manipur, Indian women are bearing the brunt of the Prime Minister’s tacit support for such criminals,” Rahul Gandhi wrote.