Bengaluru special court discharges H.D. Revanna from sexual harassment case citing unexplained delay of over four years in lodging complaint
A special court in Bengaluru has discharged JD(S) leader H.D. Revanna from a sexual harassment case due to an unexplained four-year delay in filing the complaint. The court noted that the timing of the allegations suggested they might have been an afterthought following separate charges against his
A special court dedicated to cases involving elected representatives in Bengaluru has cleared H.D. Revanna of sexual harassment charges. The judge highlighted that the complainant failed to provide a valid reason for the four-year gap between the alleged incident and the police report.
The court observation suggested that if offenses are not severe, memory can fade over time, questioning the reliability of the delayed testimony. It further noted that the subsequent high-profile rape allegations against Revanna's son, Prajwal Revanna, might have prompted the survivor to file the case as an afterthought.
Legal proceedings concluded that the lack of prompt action and physical evidence weakened the prosecution's stance significantly. The discharge order effectively ends this specific legal challenge against the senior JD(S) politician regarding the 2019-2020 allegations. Source: The Hindu.
