BENGALURU / HASSAN: BJP leader and advocate Devaraje Gowda, who had alerted the party leaders about Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna’s alleged sexual abuses sometime ago, was detained by Hiriyur police (Chitradurga district) on Friday in connection with a complaint filed against him by a woman on April 1 in Holenarasipur police station.
Holenarasipur police rushed to Hiriyur in the evening to take Gowda into their custody. In her complaint, the woman alleged that she was sexually abused by Gowda at his house when she went there to seek his help in a land dispute case. Before this, Gowda had filed a complaint with Hebbal police in Bengaluru, accusing three people from Holenarasipur of demanding Rs 2 crore from him in a honeytrap case.
Gowda has another case against him registered by Holenarasipur women police on April 30 for allegedly sexually abusing and threatening a woman with dire consequences. A complaint in this regard was filed on April 29. Sources said Gowda allegedly made WhatsApp calls to the woman and sent his nude videos to her. Gowda met her on HN Pura-Mysuru road and abused her for not cooperating with him. Gowda reminded her that he had given her more than Rs 1 lakh in Bengaluru.
Meanwhile, another FIR has been registered against Prajwal, the prime accused in the Hassan sex scandal. With this, three FIRs have been filed against the absconding MP.
The third FIR is based on the second rape complaint registered against him. In this complaint, Prajwal has been accused of raping the victim repeatedly, demanding sexual favours, filming, disrobing or compelling her to be naked and threatening her.
The complaint was registered on May 8. The first FIR was filed against him based on a complaint by a 44-year-old victim at the CID police station in Bengaluru on May 2.
The first FIR was filed against Holenarsipur MLA HD Revanna and Prajwal in Holenarasipur town police station on April 28.
Meanwhile, Crime No 33/2024 registered by Hassan CEN police on April 23 has been transferred to SIT. The complaint was filed against one Naveen Gowda and three others, alleging that they had morphed the pictures of Prajwal in the pendrives and then circulated them.
Following this complaint, Naveen Gowda and three others, including Karthik Gowda, the former car driver of Prajwal, had applied for anticipatory bail, which was rejected. The SIT had issued notices to the four accused to appear before it.
The SIT has served a second notice to Bhavani Revanna, wife of Revanna. The notice is said to have been sent to her WhatsApp number. The notice has been sent based on the statements of a victim against Bhavani.
