A woman has filed a police case against Karnataka MP Prajwal Revanna over alleged sexual assault, the police said amid a huge row over purported obscene videos.
The First Information Report (FIR) has been filed with Holenarasipur police station in Hassan district.
Prajwal Revanna, the Janata Dal (Secular) MP and grandson of former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda, has denied the allegations and filed a police complaint too, saying the obscene videos in circulation were morphed.the FIR, the survivor alleged she was sexually abused multiple times between 2019 and 2022. The complaint will be sent to the new SIT. More women are likely to come forward to file cases, in this regard.
Prajwal Revanna was the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) candidate in the Hassan Lok Sabha constituency, where voting was held in the second phase on April 26. Janata Dal (Secular), or JD(S), joined the NDA in September last year.
The BJP has distanced itself from Prajwal Revanna amid the controversy around his purported sex tapes.
