Bengaluru:

A girl has filed a police case towards Karnataka MP Prajwal Revanna over alleged sexual assault, the police stated at present 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 stated the state authorities will kind a particular investigation workforce (SIT) to look into the obscene movies case.

The choice to arrange the SIT got here after the state ladies’s fee really helpful the Siddaramaiah authorities to take motion.

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

Within the FIR, the survivor alleged she was sexually abused a number of occasions between 2019 and 2022. The grievance shall be despatched to the brand new SIT. Extra ladies are more likely to come ahead to file circumstances, sources stated.

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 12 months.

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 now we 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 stated.