The Directorate of Income Intelligence (DRI) has moved a particular Justice of the Peace’s court docket for financial offences in Bengaluru for permission to query actress Ranya Rao alias Harshavardini Ranya, 33, who’s in judicial custody following her arrest on March 3 on the Bengaluru Worldwide Airport for smuggling gold.
The company has sought to query her with regard to a gold enterprise she had began in Dubai, as claimed by her affiliate and Telugu actor Virat Konduru alias Tarun Konduru, who was arrested on March 9. The DRI may also search to know particulars relating to the alleged sale of the smuggled gold to a hawala vendor Sahil Jain.
Ranya Rao, the stepdaughter of a senior Karnataka IPS officer, was arrested when she arrived from Dubai with 14.2 kg of gold value Rs 12.56 crore hid on her individual.
The counsel for the DRI argued final week within the particular court docket that Ranya must be confronted with findings which have emerged concerning the gold smuggling racket from the questioning of two associates arrested on March 9 (Konduru) and March 26 (Jain).
The company argued that Konduru, a US citizen, had knowledgeable the company that he and Ranya had began an organization known as Vira Diamonds Buying and selling LLC in Dubai and that they had been initially companions within the agency concerned in gold purchases in Dubai.
The DRI has stated that it must query Ranya over the Dubai firm’s actions and the offers between the actress and the hawala vendor in Bengaluru who’s alleged to have acquired 49.6 kg of gold value Rs 40 crore from November 2024 to February 2025.
The particular court docket has posted the matter for counter arguments on April 21. “Senior Standing Counsel for the complainant recordsdata an utility searching for permission to acquire the assertion of accused No.1 at Central Jail, Bengaluru…” the court docket famous after DRI moved the appliance final week.
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Ranya and Konduru have, in the meantime, moved the Karnataka Excessive Court docket for bail to which the DRI has been requested to file its objections on April 21. Arguing her bail plea, the counsel for Ranya raised questions relating to her bodily search on the airport and over the method of her arrest.
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