Bengaluru:

A lady has filed a police case towards Karnataka MP Prajwal Revanna over alleged sexual assault, the police mentioned right now amid an enormous row over purported obscene movies. The First Info Report (FIR) has been filed with Holenarasipur police station in Hassan district.

Prajwal Revanna, the Janata Dal (Secular) MP and grandson of former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda, has denied the allegations and filed a police grievance too, saying the obscene movies in circulation have been morphed.

Prajwal Revanna left for Germany yesterday morning.

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah yesterday mentioned the state authorities will kind a particular investigation crew (SIT) to look into the obscene movies case.

The choice to arrange the SIT got here after the state girls’s fee beneficial the Siddaramaiah authorities to take motion.

Obscene video clips are circulating in Hassan district, the place it seems that girls have been sexually assaulted, the Chief Minister mentioned.

Within the FIR, the survivor alleged she was sexually abused a number of occasions between 2019 and 2022. The grievance will probably be despatched to the brand new SIT. Extra girls are prone to come ahead to file instances, sources mentioned.

Prajwal Revanna was the Nationwide Democratic Alliance (NDA) candidate within the Hassan Lok Sabha constituency, the place voting was held within the second section on April 26. Janata Dal (Secular), or JD(S), joined the NDA in September final yr.

The BJP has distanced itself from Prajwal Revanna amid the controversy round his purported intercourse tapes.

“We, as a celebration, don’t have anything to do with the movies and neither do we now have any feedback to make on the SIT probe introduced by the state authorities into the alleged intercourse scandal involving Prajwal Revanna,” BJP state spokesperson S Prakash mentioned.