Lok Sabha member Prajwal Revanna on Monday said that he would appear before the police on May 31 to face investigators in a case of alleged sexual abuse of women registered against him.
In a video message from an undisclosed location, the MP who is seeking re-election from Hassan in Karnataka, said he would appear before the special investigation team (SIT) probing the case at 10 am on that day.
Grandson of former prime minister HD Deve Gowda and son of senior JDS leader HD Revanna, the sitting MP fought the April 26 Lok Sabha polls as NDA candidate. He said he left the country on April 26, as per his scheduled tour plans, and a few days later, on learning about the developments from news channels, decided to seek a week's time to appear before the investigators.
But he went into depression after he heard the speech of Rahul Gandhi and other Congress leaders, targeting him in what looked like a "political conspiracy" against him, Prajwal Revanna said.
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Sections of leaders in Hassan too were part of this conspiracy, he claimed. On the day he