Bengaluru:In a major development, BJP MLC and former BJP National General Secretary C T Ravi was arrested on Thursday for allegedly making an obscene comment on Karnataka Women and Child Development Minister Lakshmi Hebbalkar.
Ravi was arrested by jurisdictional Hirebagewadi police from the Suvarna Vidhana Soudha in Belagavi and later taken to the police station. Ravi's arrest comes within an hour after Hebballkar filed a complaint against him.
Ravi has been charged under Sections 75 (for making sexually inappropriate remarks) and 79 (for using words to insult a woman's modesty) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). If charges are proved, the convict will be punished with three years of rigorous imprisonment and fine.