Bengaluru:
Former Janata Dal (Secular) MP Prajwal Revanna, who’s serving a life sentence after being convicted in a rape case, has allegedly been caught with a cell phone contained in the Bengaluru jail the place he’s lodged.
Sources informed NDTV that Revanna was discovered utilizing a cellphone throughout a shock raid by Crime Department officers. A case has been registered by the Crime Department and a probe is on to learn how Revanna obtained a cellphone contained in the jail.
Revanna, who’s the grandson of former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda and nephew of Union Minister HD Kumaraswamy, was sentenced to life imprisonment final 12 months for rape and intimidation. He was additionally convicted for circulating movies of the sexual assault on a 48-year-old lady.
The lady, who labored as a home assist on the Revanna household’s farmhouse in Hassan district’s Holenarasipura, had alleged that she was raped repeatedly by Prajwal Revanna since 2021. He had recorded the act and threatened to launch the movies if she informed anybody about it.
Revanna left for Germany quickly after the movies emerged and was later suspended by the JD(S). He misplaced the 2024 Lok Sabha election and was arrested after getting back from Germany.
Now, questions are being raised over alleged VIP therapy for the rape convict contained in the jail.
The case has as soon as once more put the highlight on particular privileges for ‘VIP’ prisoners inside Bengaluru’s central jail.
In 2024, movies had emerged of actor Darshan partying contained in the jail whereas in judicial custody in reference to the homicide of a fan.
A photograph exhibiting actor Darshan smoking a cigarette, surrounded by three others on a garden, went viral. A video had additionally surfaced exhibiting the jailed Kannada actor on a cellphone name.
Following the viral movies, authorities suspended a number of jail officers, transferred Darshan to Ballari Central Jail, and cracked down closely on jail privileges.
Private cell phones, SIM playing cards, and digital communication units are universally banned inside prisons. Permitted communication happens solely by way of closely monitored institutional landlines, public name places of work (PCOs), or designated video-calling methods.
