The biggest scandal of this country’s history when some unknown people come and go away by throwing pen drives everywhere. As he put a pen drive, everyone was sweaty. There were many such videos inside the pen drive where the girls were screaming, begged that they should be released. But the person present in the video is seen behaving like a psychopath. The woman, aged 60 to 65, was screaming and was forcing her. Nearly a year after this incident, a big decision has come out from the Bangalore court today. Former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda’s grandson and former JD (S) MP has been imprisoned for life imprisonment and a fine of Rs 11 lakh for raping a domestic assistant from KR Nagar in Mysore, Karnataka.
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An amount of Rs 11 lakh of fine will be given to the rape victim as compensation. The verdict was pronounced only 14 months after the case was registered and the case was completed at a remarkable pace. Revanna has been accused of raping the woman twice and recording the act in the case registered at the Cyber Crime police station of Criminal Investigation Department (CID). The case of sexual harassment against Hassan in the Lok Sabha elections came into the limelight when a pen drive with porn videos filmed by Revanna was allegedly broadcast before the election. However, Revanna claimed that pornographic videos related to him were tampered with and had filed a complaint in this regard. The trial began on 31 December 2024. In the next seven months, the court questioned 23 witnesses and reviewed the inspection reports from the crime site along with the major forensic science laboratory (FSL) reports of the video clip.
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Complete timeline of case
21 April 2024: Some pen drives were distributed to people in Hassan, allegedly pornographic video clips. This video was said to be associated with the covered Revanna and it was from here that the matter started catching up.
22 April 2024: Some selected videos from these pen drives started being shared on mobile and WhatsApp. In the video, Prajwal Revanna was seen in an objectionable condition with many women.
23 April 2024: A woman lodged a complaint against Prajwal Revanna at Hassan Central EN Police Station.
26 April 2024: On this day, Prajwal Revanna voted in the Lok Sabha elections.
In Karnataka, an then MP is first running a vote election campaign to become an MP again. But
27 April 2024: Prajwal Revanna flee to Germany. On the same day, an SIT is formed by the Government of Karnataka.
30 April 2024: The SIT sent a notice to Prajwal and directed to appear within 24 hours.
7 May 2024: A JDS woman worker filed a rape case at CID Cyber Police Station.
8 May 2024: The local court issued an arrest warrant against Prajwal.
31 May 2024: The SIT returned to India and SIT arrested him as soon as he landed at Bangalore Airport.
June 2024: The third woman, who was around 60 years of age, also lodged a rape complaint in front of SIT.
31 December 2024: The trial of the trial against Prajwal Revanna was a formal beginning> The court started hearing on the basis of video, victim’s statement and DNA evidence.
1 August 2025: After nearly 7 months long hearing, the court convicted Prajwal Revanna in a rape case.
2 August 2025: Prajwal Revanna was sentenced to life imprisonment, a fine of ₹ 11 lakh.