Deve Gowda’s son Revanna taken into custody in kidnapping case

KARNATAKA JD(S) MLA HD Revanna was taken into custody by Special Investigation Team sleuths on Saturday, minutes after a court here rejected his anticipatory bail plea in a kidnap case, officials said. The former minister was picked up from the Padmanabhanagar residence of his father, JD(S) supremo and former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda, and taken to the SIT office. The case was registered in Mysuru on Thursday evening against Revanna, a former minister, and his confidant Sathish Babanna for allegedly kidnapping a woman.

The case was registered on a complaint filed by the woman’s son, who also alleged that his mother was sexually assaulted by Revanna’s son and BJP-JD(S) candidate for Hassan Lok Sabha seat Prajwal Revanna. Babanna has already been arrested in connection with the case. The woman was allegedly kidnapped to prevent her from testifying against Prajwal, police sources said. Revanna was charged under sections 364(a) (kidnapping for ransom, etc.), 365 (kidnapping or kidnapping with intent to secretly and falsely confine a person) and 34 (the acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) of Indian criminal law. Code. Seeking interim bail in the case, Revanna approached the Special Court for Elected Representatives, which rejected his plea on Saturday.

Revanna’s lawyers promised the court that he would attend the interrogation by the SIT if the bail plea was granted. However, the SIT officer objected to his bail application. On Saturday, police officials rescued the kidnapped woman from a farmhouse allegedly belonging to an aide of Revanna at Kalenahalli village in Hunsur Taluk of Mysuru district. Explicit video clips allegedly involving 33-year-old Prajwal, grandson of Deve Gowda, have been doing the rounds in Hassan for the past few days, following which the state government constituted an SIT to probe the sexual assault allegations against the MP.