The Directorate of Income Intelligence has imposed a advantageous of Rs 102 crore on Kannada movie actor Ranya Rao in a gold smuggling case, the DRI sources mentioned on Tuesday.
Alongside together with her, the DRI imposed a penalty of Rs 63 crore on hotelier Tarun Kondaraju and Rs 56 crore every on jewellers Sahil Sakaria Jain and Bharat Kumar Jain.
On Tuesday, the DRI officers reached the Bengaluru Central Jail and served every of them a 250-page discover together with 2,500-page annexure.
“It was a herculean train to arrange an in depth discover together with supporting paperwork. At this time we served 11,000 pages of paperwork to the accused,” a DRI supply advised PTI.
In accordance with sources within the DRI, the actor was caught with 14.8 kg gold on March 3 on the Kempegowda Worldwide Airport in Bengaluru on her arrival from Dubai.
Rao is the step-daughter of Director Common of Police rank officer Ok Ramachandra Rao.
The actress was sentenced to 1 yr of imprisonment beneath the stringent Conservation of Overseas Alternate and Prevention of Smuggling Actions Act (COFEPOSA), within the gold smuggling case in July this yr.
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The COFEPOSA-related matter got here up earlier than the Excessive Court docket on Tuesday, which posted it on September 11, DRI sources mentioned.