BJP leader Devaraje Gowda arrested in Prajwal Revanna case

In Karnataka, BJP leader and Advocate G Devaraje Gowda was arrested Friday night in connection with an explicit video allegedly belonging to Hassan JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna. According to police, Devaraje Gowda was arrested at Gulihal toll gate by the Hiriyur Police in Chitradurga district for leaking the video in a pen drive.He was arrested on a tip-off received by the Hassan Police, which wanted his presence for the case.
The video is among thousands such clips that purportedly show Prajwal, who left for Germany on April 26, hours after polling ended in Hassan in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections.The 33-year-old politician is Hassan's sitting Lok Sabha representative and contested the seat again. His grandfather is former Prime Minister of India and JD(S) patriarch, HD Deve Gowda, while his uncle HD Kumaraswamy is Karnataka's ex-chief minister. HD Revanna, his father, is a JD(S) MLA.
The Deve Gowda-led party is in alliance with the BJP for the Lok Sabha polls in Karnataka. Under the seat-sharing agreement, the JD(S) got three of the state's 28 parliamentary constituencies – Hassan, Kolar, Mandya – while the remaining 25 went to the saffron party.The Prajwal Revanna case is being probed by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the state police. Three FIRs have been registered against him, with charges such as rape, molestation, intimidation, blackmailing, and issuing threats.
The complaint against Gowda was filed by a woman alleging that Gowda molested her for nearly ten months on the pretext of helping her to sell her property.In addition, the husband of the woman also filed a complaint against Gowda alleging that he barged into their house, threatened, and abused them. According to the FIR details, Gowda was harassing the woman for the past 10 months. He also took the woman to a secluded place and allegedly molested her, and threatened to kill her and her husband, the woman stated in the police complaint.

(Dr Mysi Patil, State Correspondent)