A Bengaluru court on Thursday extended the Special Investigation Team (SIT) custody of Janata Dal (Secular) Member of Parliament (MP) Prajwal Revanna till June 10 in a sexual harassment case.
The order was passed by Special Magistrate KN Shivakumar.
Earlier on May 31, the court had remanded Revanna to 7-day SIT custody till June 6.
A first information report (FIR) was registered against Prajwal and his father HD Revanna at the Holenaraseepur town police station in Hassan district on April 28 after 3,000 videos surfaced on social media, depicting the sexual assault of several women by Prajwal.
The father-son duo was booked under Sections 354A (sexual harassment), 354D (stalking), 506 (criminal intimidation), and 509 (insult to modesty of women) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
The criminal case was registered on a complaint filed by one of the victims. The charges are being probed by an SIT led by senior Indian Police Service (IPS) officer BK Singh.
Prajwal fled to Germany soon after the April 26 Lok Sabha polls in Karnataka. He was arrested in the early hours of May 31, soon after his return.
Just before his return, Prajwal moved a Bengaluru court for anticipatory bail in three cases connected to the sexual abuse allegations against him.