JDS leader and Karnataka MLA HD Revanna, son of former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda, has been sent to three-day police custody of the Special Investigation Team or SIT in connection with the alleged kidnapping of a domestic help, who used to work in his house, on 29 April.
It is alleged that the woman who worked in their house was allegedly raped by his son and Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna, who has been suspended by the JDS.
The SIT is also probing allegations of sexual abuse involving his son Prajwal Revanna after a huge trove of graphic videos in which Prajwal allegedly sexually assaulted several women surfaced in the public domain and were widely shared. The woman is one of the many victims.
“There is no evidence regarding the May 2 complaint. It is a big political conspiracy… A conspiracy has been hatched against me,” Mr Revanna had told reporters.
In the kidnapping complaint against HD Revanna with KR Nagar police, the victim's 20-year-old son has alleged that Revanna's close aide Sathish Babanna took his mother on a motorcycle on April 29, stating that the MLA wanted to see her .
The complainant stated that Babanna told him that if his mother “opened her mouth to the police”, she and her relatives would be arrested.
Later, the 20-year-old complainant learned from a friend and relative that his mother was one of the women in the cache of videos, showing her being tied up and raped, allegedly by Prajwal.
Fearing that his mother was in danger, police arrested Sathish Babanna and bailed the victim out of a farmhouse.