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The High Court of Karnataka connected Wednesday refused to suspend the condemnation of imprisonment for the remainder of beingness imposed connected erstwhile Member of Parliament Prajwal Revanna by the proceedings tribunal portion convicting him successful 1 of the 4 rape cases.
‘Not a acceptable case’
It is not a acceptable lawsuit for releasing Prajwal connected bail by suspending the condemnation during the pendency of his entreaty against conviction, the tribunal said, aft assessing the worldly connected grounds against him, the gravity of the offence, and the imaginable interaction connected the remaining rape cases arsenic successful those cases are pending against him.
A Division Bench comprising Justice K.S. Mudagal and Justice Venkatesh Naik T. passed the bid portion dismissing an interlocutory exertion filed by Prajwal seeking suspension of condemnation during the pendency of his entreaty against proceedings court’s August 1 verdict of convicting him connected the complaint of raping a 48-year-old woman, who was moving arsenic a home assistance successful the family’s Gannikada farmhouse successful Holenarasipura successful Hassan territory of Karnataka. He had raped her doubly — astatine Hassan farmhouse, and astatine the Bengaluru residence of the household — successful 2021, and the enactment was recorded by him connected his mobile phone.
The Bench recovered unit successful the statement of the Special Public Prosecutor that the witnesses successful different rape cases are apt to beryllium tampered with if Prajwal is released connected bail by suspending his sentence.
Charges
Prajwal was convicted for the offences nether Sections 376(2)(k) (being successful a presumption of power oregon dominance implicit a woman, commits rape connected specified woman), 376 (2)(n) (repeated rape connected the aforesaid woman), 354A (sexual harassment), 354B (assault oregon usage of transgression unit to pistillate with intent to disrobe), 354C (voyeurism), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 201 (disappearance of evidence) of the IPC, and Section 66E (violation of privacy) of the Information Technology Act, 2000.
Further proceeding connected the entreaty has been adjourned till January 12, 2026.
