File photograph of G Devaraje Gowda
New Delhi:
BJP chief G Devaraje Gowda, who had flagged JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna’s alleged sexual abuse of a number of ladies, was late Friday taken into custody in reference to a sexual assault case.
He was taken into custody whereas he was touring from Bengaluru towards Chitradurga, police mentioned.
A case of sexual harassment was registered in opposition to Devaraje Gowda on a criticism by a 36-year-old girl, who alleged that he molested her on the pretext of serving to her promote her property.
Gowda, who contested the 2023 Karnataka meeting election in opposition to Prajwal’s father and Holenarasipura MLA HD Revanna, can also be accused of leaking movies of Prajwal Revanna’s alleged sexual abuse of a number of ladies. He, nonetheless, has blamed the Congress for leaking the movies.
Gowda had alerted the BJP management final yr about Prajwal Revanna’s alleged sexual abuse and requested the occasion to not give a Lok Sabha ticket to the JD(S) chief from Hassan. The BJP, which shaped an alliance with the JD(S) final yr, nonetheless, determined to discipline Prajwal from Hassan.
The intercourse scandal had come to the fore a day after the Hassan Lok Sabha constituency went to the polls on April 26. Movies started doing the rounds exhibiting a number of ladies being sexually assaulted. The 33-year-old politician may allegedly be seen sexually abusing ladies in a number of the movies.
Prajwal Revanna, who’s the grandson of former prime minister and JD(S) supremo HD Deve Gowda, left for Germany the day the movies emerged, and was later suspended by the JD(S). A blue nook discover, which asks Interpol member states to assist find an individual, has been issued in opposition to him.
Three FIRs, together with costs of rape, molestation, intimidation, blackmailing, and threatening, have been registered in opposition to him.
His father, HD Revanna, is at present in jail on costs of kidnapping a lady, a mom of three.
