Forensic analysis has reportedly revealed dozens of pornographic videos on a mobile phone and other electronic devices seized from jailed former Janata Dal (Secular) MP Prajwal Revanna.
Crime Branch officials had conducted a surprise raid last month and allegedly caught Revanna using a mobile phone inside his prison cell.
Revanna, the grandson of former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda and nephew of Union Minister H D Kumaraswamy, is serving a life sentence after being convicted in a rape case. He is currently lodged in Bengaluru’s Parappana Agrahara Central Prison.
During a surprise inspection on August 11, Crime Branch officials reportedly found Revanna using a mobile phone inside the high-security barrack where he was lodged. A charger, pen drive and notebook were also seized.
The mobile phone and pen drive were later sent for forensic examination.
According to the forensic report, dozens of pornographic videos were found on the phone, while web series were reportedly stored on the pen drive.
The recovery has once again raised questions over the alleged special privileges enjoyed by some high-profile prisoners inside Bengaluru Central Prison.
Revanna was convicted last year in a rape case involving a 48-year-old woman who had worked as a domestic help at his family’s farmhouse in Holenarasipura in Hassan district.
The woman had alleged that Revanna repeatedly raped her from 2021 onwards, recorded the assaults and threatened to release the videos if she disclosed the matter.
Following the recovery of the mobile phone from Revanna’s cell, prison authorities suspended a jail official and ordered an inquiry into how the device had reached him.
Personal mobile phones, SIM cards and other electronic communication devices are generally prohibited inside prisons.
Inmates are permitted to communicate only through authorised and monitored facilities such as institutional landlines, public call offices or designated video-calling systems.
