New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday refused to transfer the two pending rape cases against suspended Janata Dal (Secular) leader and former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda’s grandson Prajwal Revanna, from the 81st Additional City Civil and Sessions Court, also known as the special court for MP-MLA cases, to any other sessions court in Bengaluru.

Revanna had raised concerns about the sessions court judge being biased on grounds that he had found him guilty in the previous rape case.

In August, Revanna was convicted of rape and handed a life term in the case of a 48-year-old woman working at the family’s Gannikada farmhouse in Hassan. She had also accused him of raping her at his Bassavnagudi home in Bengaluru. Show Full Article

On Thursday, the bench led by the Chief Justice of India S

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