Karnataka MP Prajwal Revanna suspended from JDS amid sex scandal allegations
Hassan: Karnataka MP Prajwal Revanna has been suspended from the Janata Dal (Secular) or JD(S) following a controversy surrounding explicit videos allegedly depicting him engaging in sexual misconduct with multiple women. Prajwal Revanna, who represents Karnataka's Hassan constituency, has also been served a show cause notice by the party.
The scandal erupted when numerous explicit videos, purportedly involving Prajwal Revanna, surfaced on social media shortly after his constituency went to polls. The videos, allegedly filmed by Prajwal Revanna himself, were widely circulated within the Hassan constituency.
Adding fuel to the fire, a woman has filed a police complaint accusing Prajwal Revanna of sexually assaulting her multiple times between 2019 and 2022. She further alleged that Prajwal Revanna's father, HD Revanna, also engaged in sexual misconduct with her during a period when his wife was not at home.
Prajwal Revanna has vehemently denied these accusations, claiming that the circulated videos are fabricated. Despite his denial, he abruptly left for Germany soon after the videos surfaced online.
In response to mounting pressure, the Karnataka government has formed a special investigation team (SIT) to probe the obscene videos case. This decision came following a recommendation by the state women's commission.
Meanwhile, BJP Leader Devaraje Gowda has claimed to possess evidence, including a pen drive containing explicit videos, allegedly implicating the HD Deve Gowda family, including Prajwal Revanna, in illicit activities.
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Israel launches first airstrike on Lebanon since ceasefire, accusing Hezbollah of breaching truce
Beirut, Nov 28: The Israeli military on Thursday said its warplanes fired on southern Lebanon after detecting Hezbollah activity at a rocket storage facility, the first Israeli airstrike a day after a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah took hold.
There was no immediate word on casualties from Israel's aerial attack, which came hours after the Israeli military said it fired on people trying to return to certain areas in southern Lebanon. Israel said they were violating the ceasefire agreement, without providing details. Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said two people were wounded.
The back-to-back incidents stirred unease about the agreement, brokered by the United States and France, which includes an initial two-month ceasefire in which Hezbollah members are to withdraw north of the Litani River and Israeli forces are to return to their side of the border. The buffer zone would be patrolled by Lebanese troops and UN peacekeepers.
On Thursday, the second day of a ceasefire after more than a year of bloody conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, Lebanon's state news agency reported that Israeli fire targeted civilians in Markaba, close to the border, without providing further details. Israel said it fired artillery in three other locations near the border. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
An Associated Press reporter in northern Israel near the border heard Israeli drones buzzing overhead and the sound of artillery strikes from the Lebanese side.
The Israeli military said in a statement that “several suspects were identified arriving with vehicles to a number of areas in southern Lebanon, breaching the conditions of the ceasefire.” It said troops “opened fire toward them” and would “actively enforce violations of the ceasefire agreement.”
Israeli officials have said forces will be withdrawn gradually as it ensures that the agreement is being enforced. Israel has warned people not to return to areas where troops are deployed, and says it reserves the right to strike Hezbollah if it violates the terms of the truce.
A Lebanese military official said Lebanese troops would gradually deploy in the south as Israeli troops withdraw. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief media.
The ceasefire agreement announced late Tuesday ended 14 months of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah that began a day after Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023 attack out of Gaza, when the Lebanese Hezbollah group began firing rockets, drones and missiles in solidarity.
Israel retaliated with airstrikes, and the conflict steadily intensified for nearly a year before boiling over into all-out war in mid-September. The war in Gaza is still raging with no end in sight.
More than 3,760 people were killed by Israeli fire in Lebanon during the conflict, many of them civilians, according to Lebanese health officials. The fighting killed more than 70 people in Israel — over half of them civilians — as well as dozens of Israeli soldiers fighting in southern Lebanon.
Some 1.2 million people were displaced in Lebanon, and thousands began streaming back to their homes on Wednesday despite warnings from the Lebanese military and the Israeli army to stay out of certain areas. Some 50,000 people were displaced on the Israeli side, but few have returned and the communities near the northern border are still largely deserted.
In Menara, an Israeli community on the border with views into Lebanon, around three quarters of homes are damaged, some with collapsed roofs and burnt-out interiors. A few residents could be seen gathering their belongings on Thursday before leaving again.
