BENGALURU: Soon after Prajwal Revanna’s flight landed in Bengaluru from Munich at 12.47am on Friday, an all-woman SIT team met him at the exit and took him to a waiting vehicle. The SIT, originally constituted to probe a series of purported sleaze videos involving the Hassan MP, is probing three cases of sexual assault against him, the first of which was registered in Holenarasipura police station of Hassan district on April 28.
Flanked by two cops in the backseat, Prajwal was taken to Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital for a medical check up and then to CID headquarters, where he was interrogated. He was later produced in the 42nd additional chief metropolitan magistrate’s court.
SIT sources said they will take Prajwal to locations in Bengaluru and Hassan where the alleged instances of sexual assault took place. Investigators may seek the court’s permission for medical tests, as mandated in sexual assault cases, and also collect voice samples for scientific investigation.
The purported sleaze videos contain voice of the suspect, but nobody’s face is visible except on a few screenshots of video calls. SIT officials seized Prajwal’s mobile phone immediately after he disembarked from the aircraft. They will cross-check with Prajwal’s former driver, Karthik, on whether the phone seized from him is the old one.
Former CP Bhaskar Rao wrote on X that the MP being escorted out of the airport by an all-woman police team had sent out “a strong message” to others who might have been harassed.
On Monday, Prajwal released a video statement apologising to his parents and grandfather for being incommunicado, and announcing that he will appear before investigators at 10am on Friday. “I will cooperate with the probe and respond to the charges. I have faith in judiciary and God. I am confident of emerging victorious from these false cases,” he said.
Prajwal’s father and Holenarsipura MLA H D Revanna is main accused in the kidnapping of a former domestic worker employed by the family. Prajwal’s mother Bhavani hasn’t been seen in public over the past 10 days, and police found her phone switched off. Her anticipatory bail plea was rejected recently after she dodged summons in the abduction case.
The woman who was allegedly kidnapped was to be present at a presser along with a ex-minister and a prominent JD(S) functionary from Mysuru on May 3. The intent was to get her to deny that she had been kidnapped, sources said.
The presser was called off due to heavy rain.
Now, the SIT intends to summon the former minister to record his statement regarding the incident.
Flanked by two cops in the backseat, Prajwal was taken to Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital for a medical check up and then to CID headquarters, where he was interrogated. He was later produced in the 42nd additional chief metropolitan magistrate’s court.
SIT sources said they will take Prajwal to locations in Bengaluru and Hassan where the alleged instances of sexual assault took place. Investigators may seek the court’s permission for medical tests, as mandated in sexual assault cases, and also collect voice samples for scientific investigation.
The purported sleaze videos contain voice of the suspect, but nobody’s face is visible except on a few screenshots of video calls. SIT officials seized Prajwal’s mobile phone immediately after he disembarked from the aircraft. They will cross-check with Prajwal’s former driver, Karthik, on whether the phone seized from him is the old one.
Former CP Bhaskar Rao wrote on X that the MP being escorted out of the airport by an all-woman police team had sent out “a strong message” to others who might have been harassed.
On Monday, Prajwal released a video statement apologising to his parents and grandfather for being incommunicado, and announcing that he will appear before investigators at 10am on Friday. “I will cooperate with the probe and respond to the charges. I have faith in judiciary and God. I am confident of emerging victorious from these false cases,” he said.
Prajwal’s father and Holenarsipura MLA H D Revanna is main accused in the kidnapping of a former domestic worker employed by the family. Prajwal’s mother Bhavani hasn’t been seen in public over the past 10 days, and police found her phone switched off. Her anticipatory bail plea was rejected recently after she dodged summons in the abduction case.
The woman who was allegedly kidnapped was to be present at a presser along with a ex-minister and a prominent JD(S) functionary from Mysuru on May 3. The intent was to get her to deny that she had been kidnapped, sources said.
The presser was called off due to heavy rain.
Now, the SIT intends to summon the former minister to record his statement regarding the incident.