Hassan sex scandal: Accused purchased 70 pen drives to spread obscene videos related to Prajwal Revanna, claims chargesheet

Some of the key accused include Prajwal Revanna's former car driver, his auditor, and a local BJP leader

Bengaluru: A fresh chargesheet filed by the Karnataka police's Special Investigation Team (SIT) has claimed that the accused persons had procured around 70 pen drives to spread obscene videos related to convicted former JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna before the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. 

The SIT submitted a 13,712-page chargesheet to a court in Hassan last month following the completion of the investigation and named 39 people as the accused in the case. DH has reviewed the details.

Some of the key accused named in the chargesheet include Karthik N, 33, the former car driver of Prajwal, Harish S N, 33, his auditor, and Devaraje Gowda G, a local BJP leader. Naveen Kumar N R, alias Naveen Gowda, was named as the accused number one. 

During the course of the probe, the SIT examined 277 witnesses along with forensic analysis of pen drives and gathered other pieces of technical evidence. Many other accused were either linked with local bodies of the Congress or BJP, the chargesheet claimed. 

“Since Prajwal Revanna is already convicted, he hasn’t been named in this particular chargesheet,” a source in the prosecution team told DH. 

The FIR was registered on April 23, 2024, at the Hassan Cybercrime Police Station following a complaint by Poornachandra Tejaswi M G, the election agent of the JD(S) and the BJP. It is pertinent to note that the videos, which later turned out to be of victims sexually abused by Prajwal, were leaked days before the Lok Sabha elections that began on April 26, 2024. 

As other victims came forward, the Karnataka government formed the Special Investigation Team to probe all the cases against the former MP.

On May 31, 2024, the SIT arrested Prajwal at the Bengaluru airport after he landed from Germany, where he had been absconding for over a month. On August 2, 2025, the Special Court for Elected Representatives in Bengaluru convicted Prajwal and sentenced him to life after he was found guilty of raping his former house help. Three more cases are pending against him, with the trial commencing in the second case, where he is accused of repeated rape of a former zilla panchayat member.