Prajwal Revanna spends the night in the SIT office

BENGALURU: 33-year-old Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna, who arrested by SIT from Kempegowda International Airport in the early hours of Friday at around 1.10 am, he was taken by a team of women SIT officers in a police jeep to the SIT office in the CID on Palace Road. He spent the night at the SIT office.

The Hassan MP will be taken for mandatory medical examination in the morning. The medical tests will be conducted at Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital in Shivanagar.

As soon as the suspended JD(S) MP landed at Bengaluru airport, a team of women police officers led by women IPS officers were waiting there to execute the arrest warrant against him in sexual assault cases.

During the execution of the warrant, he was accompanied by women police officers led by two IPS officers, Suman D. Pennekar and Seema Latkar. The MP from Hassan was then taken to a jeep containing only women police officers. They took him to the CID office.

“It was a deliberate call to send all women policemen to arrest Prajwal. This sent a message that the JD(S) leader has taken advantage of his seat and power as a member of parliament among women. The same women have the authority to arrest him under all legal procedures,” said a source in the SIT.

There was also a symbolic message to the victims that policewomen were not afraid of anyone, the source said.

He will be produced in court on Friday morning. In any case, the SIT will take the MP from Hassan into custody as he has to be taken to the mazhars in the MP quarters in Hassan and also to the farmhouse in Holenarasipur where the alleged rapes are said to have taken place. The SIT officials will also have to record his detailed statements.

The SIT officials searched for Prajwal for almost 34 days.

Three FIRs, including two rape cases, have been filed against him. An arrest warrant has also been issued against him. The CBI has issued a Blue Corner notice against him through INTERPOL. The SIT has also issued two regular notices.

On Monday, Prajwal had released a 2.57-minute video in which he claimed to appear before the SIT at 10 am on Friday morning. He flew from Munich on Thursday afternoon and landed at Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru early Friday morning at 12.50 am.

Elaborate security measures were put in place outside the SIT office and even in Bowring Hospital.

And in a joint operation on Tuesday evening, officers from the Special Investigation Team (SIT) and the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) visited the official residence of Prajwal to collect samples and fingerprints.

The joint search operation lasted for ten hours, until 4.50 am on Wednesday morning. The FSL team collected samples such as bedding, sheets, blankets, napkins and clothes from all three bedrooms of the house where Prajwal allegedly attacked the women.