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The High Court of Karnataka connected Thursday adjourned till October 28 the proceeding connected an entreaty filed by erstwhile Member of Parliament Prajwal Revanna questioning the bid of a peculiar court, which convicted him connected the charges of raping a home idiosyncratic aggregate times connected a premises belonging to his household astatine Holenarasipura and Bengaluru during January 2021 to January 2022.
A Division Bench comprising Justice K.S. Mudagal and Justice Venkatesh Naik T, earlier whom the entreaty came up for hearing, besides asked the prosecution whether a peculiar nationalist authoritative had been appointed to correspond it arsenic was done for the proceedings of the lawsuit earlier the peculiar tribunal of sessions for transgression cases against contiguous and erstwhile MPs and MLAs successful Karnataka.
The peculiar tribunal connected August 2 had sentenced Prajwal to imprisonment for remainder of his earthy beingness nether Section 376(2)(n) of the Indian Penal Code (repeated rape connected the aforesaid woman), the maximum punishment prescribed nether this Section. He was besides sentenced to imprisonment for beingness nether Section 376(2)(k) (being successful a presumption of power oregon dominance implicit a woman, commits rape connected specified a woman), isolated from different charges nether the IPC and the Information Technology Act, 2000, for video signaling his intersexual acts with the unfortunate and storing it successful a mobile phone.
This is 1 of the 4 rape cases lodged against him, and the 3 different cases are pending for proceedings earlier the peculiar court.
