Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], August 2 : After expelled JDS Leader and former Lok Sabha MP Prajwal Revanna was sentenced to life imprisonment in a rape case, Special Public Prosecutor Ashok Nayak on Saturday said that the accused can challenge the sentence before the High Court.
"The accused has been sent to life imprisonment and fine has also been imposed on him...He can challenge the sentence before the High Court," Nayak told reporters.
Earlier today, expelled JDS Leader Revanna was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Special Court for People's Representatives in connection with the rape of a domestic worker at a farmhouse in Holenarasipura in Hassan district.
A fine of Rs 10 lakh has also been imposed on expelled JDS Leader and former Lok Sabha MP Prajwal Revanna. The court said that the victim will be given a compensation of Rs 7 lakh.
On Friday, a special court in Karnataka found Prajwal Revanna, expelled JD(S) leader and former MP from Hassan, guilty in a rape case involving a domestic help.
Revanna, the grandson of former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda, was convicted in one of four rape cases filed against him. The conviction comes just 14 months after the case surfaced.
Following the verdict, Revanna broke down in court. The matter came into light in April last year after obscene videos of sexual harassment against multiple women were leaked ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. He was arrested in May 2024 after returning from Germany.
He had earlier been denied bail by both the Karnataka High Court and the Supreme Court.
Revanna had challenged the Karnataka High Court order dated October 21, whereby it dismissed his regular bail and anticipatory bail pleas.
On May 31 last year, he was arrested at Bengaluru airport by CID's SIT on his return from Germany, where he had remained for 35 days, after hundreds of explicit videos surfaced, allegedly featuring him with multiple women.