JDS Leader HD Revanna Gets Bail In Kidnapping Case, To Be Released Tomorrow

HD Revanna was detained in relation to the abduction case filed against him by the son of one of the victims who appeared to be subjected to sexual abuse by Prajwal Revanna, in the leaked videos.

JD(S) leader HD Revanna was on Monday granted bail by a Special Court for Elected Representatives in the kidnapping case. However, the Revanna will be released tomorrow after submitting a bond of Rs 5 lakh.

The 66-year-old MLA was arrested by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) in an alleged case of abduction of a woman, linked to the allegations of sexual abuse of women by his son and Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna, on May 4.          

The special court judge Santhosh Gajanan Bhat heard the matter and granted conditional bail to Revanna. The court asked the JD(S) MLA to cooperate with the SIT team and not tamper with the evidence.

Revanna's three-day police custody ended on May 8, following which he was produced in the XVII Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court, which remanded him to seven days’ judicial custody, till May 14. 

Revanna along with his associate Sathish Babanna was charged on Thursday night for purportedly abducting a woman on April 29.

The case was registered following a complaint by the woman's son, who alleged that his mother was sexually abused by Revanna's son Prajwal. The woman was allegedly abducted to prevent her from testifying against Prajwal, police sources have said.

The SIT has also secured the custody of Revanna's confidant Sathish Babanna, who was arrested on May 3. The agency also rescued the woman allegedly from a farmhouse in Mysuru’s Hunsur taluk on May 4, hours before the arrest of Revanna from his father and former PM HD Deve Gowda's residence in Bengaluru’s Padmanabhanagar.

Look Out Notice For Prajwal Revanna 

While HD Revanna has been released on bail, his 33-year-old son Prajwal Revanna faces charges of multiple instances of sexually abusing women.

The scandal has raised a political storm with the ruling Congress and BJP-JD(S) engaged in a slugfest. Prajwal Revanna reportedly left the country on April 27, a day after the first phase of Lok Sabha polls in Karnataka was held, and an Interpol Blue Corner Notice has been issued against him in an effort to bring him back.  

Prajwal was BJP-JD(S) alliance's joint candidate from Hassan Lok Sabha segment, which went to polls in the first phase.  While the Congress government has formed a SIT to probe the cases, the BJP and JD(S) -- NDA partners -- have demanded that it be handed over to the CBI, and action against those behind the circulation of explicit videos.