NEW DELHI :
WITH sexual-abuse accused
Prajwal Revanna’s arrest, the
Congress on Saturday questioned Prime Minister
Narendra Modi’s “silence” on
thematterandclaimedthathe
has “failed” to provide justice
to women in the last 10 years.
Suspended Janata Dal
(Secular) MP Revanna, facing
sexual-abuse allegations, was
remandedinpolicecustodyon
Friday, hours after he was
arrested by a Bengaluru Police
team on his return from
Germany.
A special court in
Bengaluru remanded him in
police custody till June 6.
Revanna was arrested in the
weehoursofFridaybyaSpecial
InvestigationTeam(SIT),minutes after he landed in
Bengaluru pastmidnightfrom
Germany.He had left the country on April 27.
Hitting out at Modi for
“allowing” Revanna to flee in
the first place, All India Mahila
CongressPresidentAlkaLamba
said letting a “mass rapist”
escape is“Modi kiGuarantee.”
Revanna, the member of
Parliament from Karnataka’s
Hassan, has been arrested by
theSITconstitutedbytheState
Government, she said, adding
thatthiswasdoneby a women
police team formed by the SIT.
“We congratulate the
Karnataka government,”
Lamba said.
“Narendra Modi kept raising the ‘Beti Bachao’ slogan,
but did not break his silence
on Prajwal Revanna,” she told
a press conference at the All
India Congress Committee
(AICC) headquarters here.
Lamba said Karnataka Chief
Minister Siddaramaiah wroteto Modi on the matterfor help from the Centre butdidnotgeta reply. TheChiefMinisterhadto write to Modi again after 21days, asking him to bringRevanna back to the country.
“This shows how seriousModi was about the Prajwal
Revanna case,” Lamba said.
She said the possibility of
pressure being put on victimsand witnesses still exists and“we urge thePrimeMinistertobreak his silence and assurethat there would be no tampering with evidence.”