Prajwal Revanna, the NDA candidate for the Hassan Lok Sabha seat facing charges of sexually exploiting and abusing many women, is likely to return to India this Friday, according to media reports.

The suspended JD(S) leader has booked a return flight ticket to Bengaluru from Munich on May 30.

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“The 33-year-old grandson of JD-S chief H D Deve Gowda is expected to land in Bengaluru in the small hours of May 31. The Special Investigation Team (SIT) is maintaining vigil at the Kempegowda airport here to arrest him as soon as he lands,” sources in a special investigation team (SIT), constituted to go into the case, said.

The accused has filed for anticipatory bail to prevent his imminent arrest in the multiple cases of sexual abuse at the Bangalore Sessions court.

Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara said Prajwal would be arrested soon after his landing at the Bengaluru Airport.

The development came days after Revanna announced in a video message that he would appear before the SIT on May 31 and fully cooperate in the investigation.

Meanwhile, the SIT conducted searches at Prajwal’s residence in Hassan on Tuesday which went on till late in the night. “Some incriminating materials have been seized,” they said.

Revanna is wanted in sex abuse cases in the wake of a pen drive containing his purported obscene videos going viral.

After videos and photos allegedly showing MP Prajwal Revanna sexually abusing women circulated in Karnataka, and a woman filed a case against him, he fled to Germany.

The news about Revanna’s return to India came days after his grandfather Deve Gowda wrote an open letter warning the people against vilifying the family over Prajwal’s sex scandal while asking him (his grandson) to surrender.

“At this juncture, I can do only one thing. I can issue a stern warning to Prajwal and ask him to return from wherever he is and surrender before the police. He should subject himself to the legal process. This is not a mere appeal, it is a warning that I am issuing,” Deve Gowda had written in the letter.

Prajwal Revanna, who is seeking a fresh term in the Lok Sabha from Hassan as an NDA candidate, is at the centre of the brazen sexual scandal involving him in the exploitation of hundreds of women in his constituency.

He left the country on April 27, a day after voting for the Lok Sabha elections in his constituency.