Bharatiya Janata Party leader and Advocate G Devaraje Gowda was arrested Friday night for leaking the video in a pen drive, in connection with an explicit video allegedly belonging to Hassan JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna. The police informed that Gowda was arrested at the Gulihal toll gate by the Hiriyur Police in Chitradurga district.
The Hassan police received a tip-off.
Several explicit videos involving Prajwal started making the rounds ahead of the first phase of Lok Sabha elections in Karnataka, which will take place on April 26.
The MP, a grandson of former prime minister H D Deve Gowda, is absconding and a 'blue corner' notice has been issued against him by Interpol.
So far, three FIRs have been registered against Prajwal including the charges of rape, molestation, intimidation, blackmailing, and threatening.
Devaraje Gowda is accused of leaking these videos, which he has categorically rejected.
He had contested the 2023 assembly election against JD(S) MLA from Holenarasipura H D Revanna.
Revanna, the father of Prajwal, is at present in jail on charges of kidnapping a woman, a mother of three.
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