Prajwal Revanna sex scandal | All you need to know

Over the past week, a massive sex scandal has rocked Karnataka, overshadowing the political discourse in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections.

In the thick of it all is Prajwal Revanna, grandson of former PM HD Deve Gowda, and sitting MP from Hassan. Revanna is also seeking re-election from the constituency as the NDA candidate.  

On April 27, the Karnataka government, at the behest of the State Commission for Women, constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe into the alleged video clips of sexual abuse and exploitation involving the Hassan MP.  

While the probe was ordered a day after phase 2 polling in the State, pen drives with thousands of explicit video clips featuring multiple women, allegedly recorded by Revanna himself, had been doing the rounds from way before in Hassan and surrounding regions.   

While Revanna is believed to have fled to Germany, on April 28, an FIR was registered in Holenarasipur against him and his father, former Minister H.D. Revanna, for sexual harassment and criminal intimidation based on a complaint by a woman who worked in their household. 

With pressure building on an embarrassed JD(S), which is battling for relevance in Karnataka, the regional party suspended Prajwal Revanna earlier this week.  

What does the sexual abuse scandal mean for the JD(S)’s future, and its alliance with the BJP? How will this affect the women victims? How limiting are ex-parte injunctions in a case like this? 

The Hindu’s S. Bageshree and Nalme Nachiyar discuss.

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[yasininamdar]

Madam this is not minor incident. Don't be soft need strict action

[laxmirekha]

The Devogowda whole family doing it yrs after yrs the truth comes now

[Yakshabhimani]

Prajwal has the Washing Machine option....

[venesaferreira]

This woman is pro BJP and not for the woman of India

[helesonchithung]

Nothing to be surprised this party is modi shah partners, so what's the big deal,

[neelamvalecha]

Suspensing from the party is not enough. He must face SIT and when charges proven, must be jailed.

[farhatara]

No justice for victims In India 😢😢 Taboo of the society is also there, what can the poor ladies do, , our laws have many loopholes, the culprits bcan escape the punishment, !!

[prashanthmr]

Informative and to the point interview, nice job 👍

[criticalrebel]

2000 pen drives left @ public places
World record of free distribution of pendrives 😅
Now Kumarswamy after
Who leaked, distribution, who picked them should be punished 😢😢😢

[TheGeorgeous]

Crimes are not crimes if you are affiliated to the BJP

[bdaniel]

Who and why has been issued him a diplomatic passport? Anything possible in this central government?

[neelamvalecha]

But why did they allow him to travel abroad ??

[lostcasel]

The only reason he could do this massive scale of abuse was because of gowda family power. There is no way the gowda family was not aware of this scale of abuse going on for many years now.

[tony]

Your talking about 400 women ..not sure where has this happened before ?

[josephraphael]

Kick out BJP out of south india keep south clean.

[scariathoppil]

This means that while rapists like Prajwal Revanna, Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, etc. were continuing as Parliamentarians, people like Rahul Gandhi, Mehua Moitra etc. were expelled from the Parliament. What sort of a system is this? How can Courts be insensitive to this extent on such issues? The Karnataka Court should have ordered an immediate investigation instead of issuing gag order that too when the issue was so critical and the culprit was such a mighty and powerful MP.

[vinodp]

Revanna! Buy electoral bonds & undergo washing machine procedure😂

[savithakl]

I now know why Suraj Revanna chose Justice Ramesh daughter as bride.

[rdileeputube]

BJP's own Sandeshkhali. So much for morality

[ishandutta]

Who are the women in these videos, why are we seeing no interviews from these women ?