Former Janata Dal (Secular) MP Prajwal Revanna has been sentenced to life imprisonment for raping his house help by a special court in Bengaluru. Revanna, who is the grandson of former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda, had also been charged with circulating videos of the sexual assault on the 48-year-old woman.
The woman, who worked as a domestic help at the Revanna family’s farmhouse in Hassan district’s Holenarasipura, had alleged that she was raped repeatedly by Prajwal Revanna since 2021. He had recorded the act and threatened to release the videos if she told anyone about what he had done.
The special court for MPs/MLAs in Bengaluru had framed charges against him under various sections, including rape, voyeurism, criminal intimidation, and unlawful circulation of intimate images. He had been convicted on Friday and the sentence was pronounced on Saturday.