The 42nd Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court remanded JD(S) MLC Suraj Revanna, who has been arrested in connection with a case of alleged sexual abuse of a man, in the custody of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) till July 1. Suraj Revanna, the brother of former MP Prajwal Revanna, who is facing allegations of sexually abusing several women, was arrested by police in Hassan on Sunday. The case was handed over to the CID by the state government. After shifting him to Bengaluru from Hassan, the CID produced the 37-year-old before the court on Sunday night, and he was remanded in judicial custody for 14 days.
The police have filed an FIR against Suraj Revanna under IPC sections 377, 342, 506, and 34 following a complaint filed by the 27-year-old JD(S) worker who alleged that he was sexually assaulted on June 16 by the MLC at his farmhouse in Ghannikada. Suraj Revanna has denied the charge, alleging that the JD(S) worker had filed a “false complaint” in a bid to extort Rs five crore from him.
JD(S) MLC Suraj Revanna (Via Suraj Revanna/Twitter)
The police had registered a case of extortion against the man on a complaint by Suraj Revanna’s close aide Shivakumar, who claimed that the party worker was trying to extort money from Suraj Revanna by threatening to lodge a false case of sexual abuse against him.
Shivakumar alleged that while the man demanded Rs five crore from Suraj Revanna, later it was reduced to Rs two crore. Suraj Revanna’s father, Holenarasipura MLA H D Revanna, was arrested recently for allegedly kidnapping a sexual abuse victim of Prajwal Revanna to prevent her from testifying against the former MP, and is out on bail. Suraj’s mother, Bhavani Revanna, has secured anticipatory bail in the same case.
