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.”