Ex-MP Prajwal Revanna convicted in rape case by Bengaluru court

Prajwal Revanna is the prime accused in four criminal cases filed in 2024, after over 2,000 obscene video clips of sexual abuse surfaced on the internet.

Updated on: Aug 1, 2025, 15:32:59 IST

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A Special court in Bengaluru on Friday convicted former MP Prajwal Revanna in a sexual abuse and rape case.

File photo of former MP Prajwal Revanna. (REUTERS)

The former JD(S) leader was convicted in the first rape case registered against him at the Holenarasipura Rural Police Station of Hassan District in Karnataka, news agency PTI reported.

The Special Court for People's Representatives in Bengaluru had completed the trial in the rape case on July 18 and had reserved its verdict. The punishment would be announced on Saturday, August 2.

The case pertains to a 48-year-old woman who was working as a help at the family's Gannikada farmhouse in Hassan district's Holenarasipura. She was allegedly raped twice in 2021, and the act recorded by the accused on his mobile phone.

Four separate cases have been registered against Prajwal Revanna, who is facing charges of rape and sexual harassment, and a Special Investigation Team (SIT) was formed to probe the cases against him.

Prajwal Revanna is the grandson of former Prime Minister and JD (S) patriarch HD Deve Gowda.

The cases came to light after pen drives containing explicit videos allegedly involving Prajwal Revanna were reportedly circulated in Hassan, ahead of Lok Sabha elections there on April 26, 2024.

He was arrested by the SIT on May 31 last year, upon arrival at Bengaluru Airport from Germany, in connection with a case registered at the Holenarasipura Town Police Station.

Revanna had failed in his bid to retain the Hassan parliamentary constituency in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. JD(S) suspended him from the party following the cases filed against him.

(With inputs from PTI)

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