00:00Prajwal Rewanna, ex-MP from Hassan and grandson of ex-Prime Minister H.T. Dewe Gowda has been
00:05convicted in a rape case by a special court for present MPs and MLAs. As per initial reports,
00:10Rewanna reportedly broke down after his conviction. The trial in the rape case against Prajwal began
00:14on May 2, 2024. It concluded in just over two months with hearings held daily. Rewanna had
00:19three rape cases and one sexual assault case filed against him. And this is the first conviction.
00:24The victim in this case was a former house help at the Rewanna family's farmhouse in
00:28Gannikada Hassan. Arguments over the severity of the sentence are ongoing and will most
00:32likely be announced by 2nd August, 2025. A 1,632-page long chart sheet was filed in September
00:382024 by a special investigation team, SIT. As per the SIT, the victim was raped by the accused
00:44twice in 2021, once at their Hassan residence and again at the family's residence in Bengaluru's
00:49Basavangudi. A video of one of these incidents was recovered by the SIT, in which the victim
00:53was seen resisting advances and breaking down. Even though Prajwal Rewanna's face was not
00:57visible in the video, forensic analysis indicated it was him in the video.
