The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to entertain a plea by former JD-S MP Prajwal Revanna , grandson of former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda , seeking transfer of the trial in rape cases from a Special MP/MLA Court in Bengaluru to another sessions court.

A bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi declined to accept Revanna’s contention that the trial judge was prejudiced against him.

Observing that an earlier conviction by the same court in another rape case could not be a ground to infer bias, the CJI-led Bench said: “We have no reason to doubt that the officer would not be swayed by the fact that the petitioner was found guilty in the earlier case and will confine his conclusions on the basis of evidence led in the pending trial.”

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