SC rejects Prajwal Revanna’s plea to shift trials in rape cases

The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a plea filed by expelled Janata Dal (Secular) leader and former Karnataka MP Prajwal Revanna seeking the transfer of his pending trials in three additional rape cases to a different court.

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Revanna, who has been convicted and handed a life sentence for raping a domestic worker, had argued that the ongoing cases should not be heard by the same judge who sentenced him in the first matter.A bench comprising Chief Justice of India, CJI Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi rejected the argument observing that the judicial officers are trained to assess each case strictly on its evidence. “There is no reason to doubt that trial courts’ presiding officer is swayed by the fact that he found the petitioner guilty in another case and obviously the decision in pending cases on will be confined on the b