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Karnataka Today newsletter: Prajwal Revanna sent to 14-day judicial custody in Bengaluru, and more

The 42nd Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate court remanded rape-accused former JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna to 14 days of judicial custody on June 10, as his SIT custody ended on June 9. The SIT did not seek further custody of Mr. Prajwal, but intended to seek his custody in other cases pending against him.

Mr. Prajwal, who was in SIT custody since the last one week, was taken to his residence in Basavanagudi for spot inspection. The SIT had earlier conducted spot mahazar at his house in Hassan’s Holenarasipura on June 8. The former Hassan MP has been booked in three cases of sexual assault. There are also charges of rape against him.

A group of about 25 persons allegedly stabbed two BJP workers and injured another when they were returning after celebrating the swearing-in of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, at Boliyar under Konaje Police Station limits near Mangaluru, on June 9 night. Police said Harish, 41, and Nanda Kumar, 24, were stabbed while Krishna Kumar was injured.

In his complaint, Krishna Kumar told the police that the trio were returning home when a group started following them from around Boliyar masjid and attacked them in front of Boliyar Bar. Police Commissioner Anupam Agrawal informed in a communique that the trigger for the attack could have been shouting of slogans by the victims in front of Boliyar masjid.

Karnataka Transport Minister Ramalinga Reddy asserted that the Shakti scheme, offering free travel in non-luxury government buses to women in the State, will continue. His clarification comes following some rumours being spread on social media that the scheme will be stopped as the Lok Sabha elections are over.

Apart from this, Congress leader M. Lakshman, who lost the Lok Sabha election in Mysuru-Kodagu Lok Sabha constituency, had urged CM Siddaramaiah to review and restrict implementation of guarantee schemes only to the needy and poor in Karnataka. He had said that the mandate from the people in the Lok Sabha elections was against continuation of guarantee schemes.

Tension gripped the central prison at Parappana Agrahara in Bengaluru for some time when a gang of nine clashed with seven undertrials of an adjacent barrack on June 7 night. The clash occurred around 6.30 p.m. when prison officials were on routine rounds.