Sexual Abuse Case: SC notice to JDS' Revanna

Bengaluru: Supreme Court has issued a notice to senior JDS legislator HD Revanna on an appeal from the state government that challenged a high court judgment discharging him of the charge of "outraging a woman's modesty".

The high court had allowed investigators to probe him for allegations of sexual harassment involving the domestic help employed by his family.

An SC bench of justices JB Pardiwala and K Vinod Chandran ordered the notice to the JDS leader and verbally questioned how the high court could suggest modifying the charges from sections 354 (outraging a woman's modesty) to 354A of IPC.


In May 2024, an SIT had arrested Revanna on the charge that he was among a group of people who had abducted a rape victim from her home in Mysuru district. SIT was also probing him on charges of sexual harassment of a domestic help.