BENGALURU: Former PM H D Deve Gowda’s grandson and JD(S) MLC Suraj Revanna, who was arrested on charges of sexually abusing a 27-year-old male party worker, was Monday remanded in police custody for eight days.
Suraj was produced before the 42nd additional chief metropolitan magistrate’s court where CID officials investigating the case sought his custody for 14 days.The court, however, remanded Suraj in custody for eight days.
Police sources said Suraj has been kept in the same room in CID headquarters where his younger brother and former MP Prajwal Revanna was lodged till Monday afternoon. Prajwal, too, is in custody in a sexual assault case.
Prajwal was taken out of CID headquarters before Suraj was brought in. A senior police officer said deputy SP from the homicide and burglary wing, Umesh MH, has been appointed as the investigating officer in the case. The probe is being supervised by Sudheer Kumar Reddy CH, DIG of police, CID. “We didn’t question Suraj much on Monday as we brought him to the CID office only in the evening and some paperwork was still pending. The IO needed some more time to prepare the questionnaire. The actual interrogation will start from Tuesday morning,” police sources said.