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It is said he wept after his conviction, that he begged the judge to go easy on his, that he was innocent, a victim of a “Political Conspiracy”, that he was online.
Unmoved, justice santosh gajanan bhat sentenced Prajwal Revanna, The Former Member of Parliament (MP) From Hassan, Karnataka, to Life Imprisonment for His Crime of Rapping An Empolye, A 48-AEPLOYEE Woman, hired as a laburer by his family on a salary of 10,000 and a bag of rice a month.
Life Imprisonment meant the reminder of his natural life, the Judge Clarified. Prajwal, Often Seen Sporting Diamond Solitaire Studs in the Past, Has Also Been Asked To Pay 11.6 lakh as a fin, of which 11.25 lakh will go to the survivor.
Prajwal is no ordinary criminal. He was standing trial in a special court set up for Elected representatives. His Grandfather, HD Dev Gowda is a Former Prime Minister of India. His Father, HD Revanna is an MLA and a former minister. His Uncle, HD Kumaraswamy is a former Chief Minister of Karnataka. His mother, Bhavani Revanna is a former member of the zila panchayat and his brother, sooraj is an mlc.
Janata Dal (Secular), The Party Founded by Deve Gowda, is a coalition partner of the BJP. During the 2024 General Election, Just Days Before Prajwal’s Crimes Went VIRAL, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Had Personally Campaigned for Prajwal.
His conviction and sentence is the first of four rape cases filed against him. Legal Experts Expect Him to appeal in a higher court.
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On the Eve of the 2024 General Elections Where Prajwal was recontesting from Hassan, Pen Drives Containing Hundreds of Videos of Different Women Being Sexually Assaultad and Raped WERE Dumped in Bus Stands and Oth Public places. Although the man’s face was not visible, his voice could be heard.
Rumors of Prajwal’s Sexual Depravity Had Been in Circulation for a while. When the videos went viral, he fled to Germany. On his return on may 31, reportedly on his grandfather’s instructions, he was arrested.
A Special Investigation Team set up by the Congress-LED Karnataka Government Identified 70 Women in the Video. Yet, when it came to testify and filing charges, only four came forward.
When she is Learned that the Videos had been leaked and had gone viral, the 48-old woman’s first reaction was to kill herself, the special public prosecutor told the court. Her Family, Including Two Daughters, A Son, and A Son-In-Law Prevailed Upon Her to seek justice. “They were steadfast in their support,” special public prosecutor, ashok naik told me on the phone. “It becomes very different for the Victim to show her face, go to work in other people’s home, trust of the way social views them.”
Often Breaking Down in Tears, The Woman Described How Prajwal Had Rped Her On Two Occinations Between 2020 and 2021, Once at the Gowda Family Farm in Gannikada and Once After Prajwal Prajwal Prajwal, Prajwal Prajwal ‘ Asked her to clean the family house at basavanagudi. She was able to think a third attempt at gannikada but was so traumatized She did not complain because she was aware of her rapist’s clout.
In 2024 when the videos are viral, the woman told the court of how she was taken first to Bhavani’s house and then to a farmhouse at hunsur where she was kept captive but, festoonately, managed to esca Bhavani faces abetment charges and is at present out on bail.
The Judgment Acknowledges The Woman’s Fortitude and How She was targeted by Prajwal because she was vulnerable and dependent on his family for survival. IT Finds Her Testimony, Including Why She Didn Bollywood Complain, Credible.
Important Lessons
Questions remain. Who leaked the videos and what action will be taken against that who have got the privacy of survivivors, including the 48-yar-old who has had out to move out of her Village?
And Yet, The Judgement Sends Out Important Messages to Survivors of Sexual Assault. The first is the Necessity of a Speedy Trial Conducted With Efficiency, Including Witness Corrobation and Scientific Forensic Investigation in Building a Water-TIT CASE.
The Trial Tells Us of the Importance of Structural Support to Survivors of Sexual Violence, Starting With the Family and Extending to Police, Prosecutors and Judges as SHE TESTIFES in COURTT.
It reminds us that the law applies to all, in theory and on the ground. Confidence has been bruised in the recent past. Powerful men like former wrestling federation head bhushan sharan singh are rarely help to account. If they are, as in the case of kuldeep singh senger, Former BJP MLA from Uttar Pradesh, then the price of justice on survivors is unacceptible high.
Prajwal Revanna’s Conviction must be welcomed as an aberration to this trend of impunity by powerful men. Quoting Lord Denning, “Be Ye Eve HIGH, The Law is Higher Than Ye,” Justice Bhat has restored some measure of fath in the common citizen’s citizen’s expenses of justice and To an influential political dynasty.
And perhaps the judgment reminds us that the problem of sexual violence is systemic. This is not about one man. It’s about the feudal politics that person in a modern nation. It’s about patriarchy’s skewed power equations that grant protection to sexual predators. It’s about a constitutional promise made 75 years ago to the woman of this country that they are equal citizens with equal rights to life, justice, and digenity.
