In yet another blow to the family of former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda, Karnataka Police arrested Suraj Revanna, a JD(S) MLC and grandson of Gowda, in connection with an alleged case of forced unnatural sex.
The brother of Prajwal Revanna, former JD(S) MP now in custody as the main suspect in a sex video scandal, Suraj Revanna was apprehended early Sunday by the Holenarasipura Rural police in Hassan District.
He was arrested based on an FIR filed against him, and to which Suraj Revanna responded by going to the police voluntarily the previous night.
According to police sources, the FIR against Suraj Revanna, including IPC Sections 377 (unnatural sex), 342 (wrongful confinement), and 506 (criminal intimidation), is based on a complaint by one JD(S) worker.
The complainant had initially approached the office of the DGP and the Hassan Superintendent of Police before the case was officially transferred to the Holenarasipura Rural police station.
Investigations by the police have been on with the recording of the statement of the complainant and a medical examination. Suraj Revanna hit back at the allegations, terming it as a political game against him and said he would take recourse in the court of law over the issue.
He claimed he had met Suraj Revanna for the first time at some event that the latter had organised, before he claimed it was the latter who initiated contact and later abused him at a farmhouse.
This is an incident against the backdrop of a spate of legal problems of other members of Suraj Revanna's family: his elder brother Prajwal Revanna getting arrested in an unrelated sex video scandal, and his father HD Revanna's recent legal entanglement in a kidnapping case related to the same sex scandal. His mother, Bhavani Revanna, too, faces an investigation into allegations of kidnapping.
Apart from this, the allegations of extortion pertaining to the Suraj Revanna case were responded to by the Karnataka Police filing an FIR against two. Aide Shivakumar of Suraj Revanna had filed a counter-complaint that a false accusation was made with the ulterior motive of extorting money from Suraj Revanna.
The complaint contended that the accused had threatened to initiate legal action unless Suraj Revanna paid Rs 5 crore, which led to registration of a case by police under IPC Sections 384 (extortion) and 506 (criminal intimidation) against the extortionists.
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