MLA HD Revanna arrested from father Deve Gowda’s home in kidnapping case

Karnataka Janata Dal (Secular) MLA HD Revanna was arrested by Karnataka Police’s Special Investigation Team (SIT) in connection with a kidnapping case registered against him.

The JD(S) legislator was arrested from his father and former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda’s house, sources told India Today TV. He was taken for a routine medical test and will be produced before the magistrate tomorrow (Sunday).

The Karnataka Police team took HD Revanna into custody soon after his request for interim protection from arrest in a kidnapping case was rejected by a Bengaluru court.

HD Revanna is facing a kidnapping case following allegations that his associate abducted a 20-year-old man’s mother. Raju HD, the complainant, along with his mother, worked as house help at Revanna’s farmhouse.

The woman was allegedly kidnapped from her home on April 29 by Satish Babanna, a relative of Revanna, and was held captive at the farmhouse belonging to MLA’s close assistant Rajasekhar in Kalenalli. The woman was rescued by Karnataka Police earlier in the day.

The case against the JDS MLA was filed under Section 364A (kidnap) and Section 365 (forceful restraint) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and non-bailable sections were invoked by Karnataka Police.

Notably, HD Revanna, along with his son Prajwal Revanna, is also facing grave allegations of sexual assault and filming the act. A lookout notice was issued against HD Revanna and Prajwal by the Special Investigation Team. Prajwal has already flown abroad.

Explicit video clips allegedly involving Prajwal Revanna had started making the rounds in Hassan in recent days, following which the state government constituted the SIT to probe the alleged sex scandal involving the MP.

Prajwal, who is the grandson of former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda, was the BJP-JD(S) alliance’s candidate from Hassan, which went to the polls on April 26.

Prajwal is said to have flown abroad on April 27, a day after the first phase of Lok Sabha polls in Karnataka held on April 26. Sources said that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) was likely to seek a ‘Blue Corner Notice’ against Prajwal Revanna.