Bengaluru: JD(S) leader H D Kumaraswamy has claimed that 25,000 pen drives with videos of women being sexually abused allegedly by his nephew, Lok Sabha election candidate Prajwal Revanna, were distributed before polls, and accused Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and his deputy D K Shivakumar of a conspiracy.
The former chief minister also sought to discredit the Special Investigation Team (SIT) formed by the Congress government on April 28 to probe the charges against Prajwal of sexually abusing several women after videos allegedly involving him started making the rounds on social media.
"It is not a Special Investigation Team but 'Siddaramaiah Investigation Team' and 'Shivakumar Investigation Team'," the JD(S) second-in-command, who is the son of party supremo and former prime minister H D Deve Gowda, said.
MLA H D Revanna and his son and Hassan MP Prajwal have been booked for allegedly molesting their cook. In another case, Revanna has been booked and arrested for allegedly kidnapping a woman who was allegedly sexually assaulted by Prajwal. A case of rape has also been registered against Prajwal.
Addressing a press conference here, Kumaraswamy said the pen drives were circulated by police officers who were "threatened to do it".
“It (pen drive carrying videos) was released in Bengaluru Rural constituency (where the Congress candidate in the Lok Sabha elections is D K Suresh, who is the brother of Shivakumar). This was an April 21 development. On April 22, Poornachandra, our polling agent, gave a complaint to the District Deputy Commissioner, who is the Returning Officer,” the JD(S) leader said.
“Poornachandra received a message at 8 pm on April 21 asking people to 'follow a WhatsApp channel to see Prajwal Revanna’s sleaze video'. There was a message on this WhatsApp channel, 'Countdown for the release of Prajwal’s sleaze videos'," Kumaraswamy further said.
According to Kumaraswamy, one Naveen Gowda had sent the message about the "countdown".
In his complaint to the Deputy Commissioner and the Superintendent of Police of Hassan district, Poornachandra has named five people including Naveen Gowda, Karthik Gowda (Revanna’s driver), Chethan and Puttaraju alias Putty, he said.
It has been more than a fortnight since the complaint made on April 21 but no action has been taken against these five people, Kumaraswamy said and demanded that they should first be arrested for "mortgaging the modesty" of women in the videos.
Kumaraswamy alleged that 25,000 pen drives were distributed in the entire state, and cited a report in a regional daily to support his claim.
“My question here is why no action was taken. If someone posts something on social media, immediately houses are searched and the person is made to sit in the police station. Why no action was taken against these five people despite a complaint?” he asked.
"Chief Minister Siddaramaiah had confidently said that all the three JD(S) candidates in the Lok Sabha elections will be defeated," Kumaraswamy said, adding, "It raises doubts about the involvement of many people."
On April 25, Karnataka State Commission for Women Chairperson Nagalakshmi Chowdhary wrote to Siddaramaiah demanding an SIT probe into the tapes where Prajwal is allegedly seen sexually abusing several women. The same night, the CM gave his nod and ordered the formation of a SIT, Kumaraswamy said.
“In that letter, Nagalakshmi Chowdhary did not mention the name of Prajwal or Revanna but the chief minister called it ‘Prajwal Revanna’s explicit videos’ in his post on X when he announced the formation of SIT. This shows how the conspiracy was hatched,” the JD(S) leader claimed.
He also alleged that the first complaint "framing" his brother H D Revanna and nephew Prajwal was typed on a computer in Bengaluru and was sent to Holenarasipura, which is represented in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly by Revanna, on April 28.
“It’s not a Special Investigation Team but there are two teams within it – one is ‘Siddaramaiah Investigation Team’ and another one is ‘Shivakumar Investigation Team’,” he charged.
He said the ‘convenor’ of the 'pen drive story', Karthik Gowda should be traced first and brought before the people.
“Going through the conspiracies, one can doubt the intention behind the investigation because more than protecting the women victims, you are limiting the scope of the probe only to defame people,” Kumaraswamy further alleged.
He underlined that he was not trying to protect anyone. “I have said that in this case I will not protect anyone doing wrong. Stringent punishment should be given to the person involved in this crime as per the law of land."
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RSS is the only enemy of India.
RSS should be allowed to wear pants. They look like mentally backward people.
Muslims will manage to get back RSS weapons.
Interesting to hear the jokes of kothi Ann...
Sanghi goon out of India.....staying in Buddha land and disrupting the unity of Indians.....soon should be behind bars....jai hind....
@Naren
Don't think that staying in singapore. And giving communal lines. Will get away from this. Ur each and every comment might be monitoring.
Once police catch u, then ur life will be behind the bars.
Think before u com
@Naren
Don't think that staying in singapore. And giving communal lines. Will get away from this. Ur each and every comment might be monitoring.
Once police catch u, then ur life will be behind the bars.
Think before u com
@Naren
WHY ??? THEY DONT HAVE GUN OF THEIR OWN. I THINK EVEN NAREN TOO WANTS THE GUN. HE ALSO DONT HAVE. POOR CHEDDY?
Donkey never disobedient to its master... whatever loaded on it, it will take...
Similarly there are few human beings despite lot of evidence of the cheddis involvement in deception... They never want to accept the REALITY of their deception and want to continue like the donkeys take their load.. with their mind filled with lies.
We say wake up guys.. look outside the cheddi installed software in your mind and use your God given intellect.
An intelligent human being will understand when shown with proof... and many times cheddis were caught of their dirty activities of doing their evil acts and blaming others...
Karkera exposed their evil acts...
Writers too exposed them
Bomb blast in their own cell
Saffron IT cell exposed with their fake display of nationalism
JNU video tampered
cheddi wearing burka caught red handed last week...
Cow business exposed too
Pakistan flag hositing too caught red handed
Fake FB account too caught red handed...
Only God knows how much bombs they keep in their own temples to create unrest in the society...
Naren, you must be Godse's elder brother....calm down guy....we all know what is RSS all about.....
No wonder. Over and again they openly admitted that they are the manufaturers of terror factories.
Jihadis are having honey moon period as it is khan grace govt as this govt licks their feet ....but everyday is not Sunday ....if jihadis are so powerful...they must directly fight ...not from behind ....if jihadis were so powerful they would have ruled whole world thru oic ...but looking at their mujra infront of Israel only we can make out hahaha....if sangh decides jihadist forces shud run for cover like how they ran in gujarath and muzzaffar Nagar ...we are showing maximum restraint becoz we honour our constitution and respect rule of land....bholo Bharath mata ki jai ..jai sangh parivar ....
We already carry it inside our jockeys......what about chaddeez...if they don't have then why they are wearing it..
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@Brother Venki Cracked a good Joke.Joke of the Millennium.
Do we have another sample like VENKI in India.Please let us know.We need to send to the Kargil area to entertain our Soldiers.So that they can relax their mind by listening such Jokes.
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What a funny guys they have with them. Mangana Kaiyalli Manikya...
Give them rights to allow Weapons as well allow them to Shoot who ever they wants.
Aur kya kya chayiye? Ek lambi list karo aur khadey hojao line mey.. Dharpok insaan.. LOL .
Some are getting Y guards, some are for Z guards.. Some need x guards.. Until when you chaddis will keep begging??
Hahaha. Saale Darrpok. No doubt they are criminals. Because they are always afraid of death. Noorukala iliyagi baalokkinta mooru kaala huliyagi baalode melu.
Someone was barking before that 60% of the police are from RRSS....
Where are they NOW ... why dont they Protect Your own men even after we citizens pay from our tax money for their jobs.... U cheddis are useless in taking responsibility to protect the society and now they dont even able to protect their own members..
Are the 60% turned their hearts and became good and thought of helping people rather than continuing supporting the cheddi evils... if it is, then it will be good for the people and the society...
Dear,
Please now itself list out your other demands, we will support for police commissioner permission.
Hope your request is to only for your so called brahmin community ?
Disaster, dont forget that they killed father of nation, Mahatma Gandhi, cant trust them at all....
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