How SIT's forensic tools helped send Prajwal to jail for life

THE Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the rape case against former Janata Dal (S) MP Prajwal Revanna was able to establish his culpability from the leaked video of his sexual aggression against his employee and her statement, said BK Singh, CID ADGP and the SIT chief.

- BALA CHAUHAN @Bengaluru

Prajwal was sentenced to life imprisonment on Saturday.

Soon after the court sentence, in an exclusive interview with this paper, the SIT chief said evidence in the rape case rested on the "victim's statement, forensic science and tools including DNA profiling and matching of voice samples."

The video had Prajwal and the victim's voice. The former's voice was forensically matched for identification. The victim had already given her statement. Forensic tools helped identify the perpetrator from his body parts in the leaked video, said Singh.

Narrating the trail of investigation, Singh said the video, with graphic details of the rape shot by Prajwal to blackmail and silence the victim, did not show his face. The SIT started looking for similar cases of sexual offences in which the face of the accused was not visible and what forensic tools were used to identify the perpetrator.