JDS Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna, embroiled in the state’s infamous obscene video scandal, landed in Bengaluru in the early hours of Friday. The MP, who had fled the country after the scandal broke out, was arrested by the Special Investigative Team on sexual assault charges right as he arrived.
Revanna, the grandson of former prime minister HD Deve Gowda and son of senior JDS leader HD Revanna, had released a video message earlier this week, saying he would surrender before the SIT. The Congress, he alleged, was framing him as he was growing politically significant.
Revanna Jr., who is the NDA candidate from Hassan, found himself at the centre of a political storm, when pen-drives containing sex videos allegedly involving him were distributed in his constituency days before the LS polls there.
His MLA father, Revanna, who represents Holenarasipur in the assembly, has been battling a case of alleged abduction of a sexual assault victim from her home in Mysuru district. He is currently out on bail.
The SIT had arrested two people in connection with the case on Tuesday. Naveen Gowda, 34, and Chethan Kumar B C, 32, were taken in while they were leaving the Karnataka High Court following a hearing of their anticipatory bail pleas. They, along with two others, had been missing since April 23 when election officials filed a complaint in Hassan over the distributed pen drives.
