Efforts on to bring Prajwal back: Karnataka HM

Prajwal reportedly left India on April 27 and is still at large. He was BJP-JD(S) alliance’s candidate from Hassan Lok Sabha segment, which went to polls in the first phase on April 26

Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara on Friday said efforts are on to bring Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna, who is facing charges of sexual abuse against women, back to India. He also asserted that the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the case was functioning efficiently.

The 33-year-old Prajwal, who is the grandson of JD(S) patriarch and former PM H D Deve Gowda, is facing charges of multiple instances of sexually abusing women. The scandal has raised a political storm with the ruling Congress and BJP-JD(S) engaged in a slugfest.

Prajwal reportedly left India on April 27 and is still at large. He was BJP-JD(S) alliance’s candidate from Hassan Lok Sabha segment, which went to polls in the first phase on April 26.

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