NEW DELHI: Gold smuggling accused actor Ranya Rao on Tuesday approached Karnataka high court for bail, days after a sessions court in Bengaluru rejected her plea for relief, news agency ANI reported.Rao’s lawyer BS Girish submitted the petition, which the high court will take up next week. The rejection by the sessions court of Rao’s…
NEW DELHI: A special court on Tuesday reserved its order on the bail plea of Kannada actress Harshavardhini Ranya, also known as Ranya Rao, in the gold smuggling case until March 27. DRI advocate Madhu Rao also informed the court that actress Rao admitted to hawala connection.The decision comes after a detailed hearing where both…
Image credit: Amit Malviya’s X NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party leader Amit Malviya on Wednesday shared an image of Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah in the same frame with actress Ranya Rao who was arrested in the alleged gold smuggling case. This comes after deputy CM DK Shivakumar dismissed the reports of any political link with…
BENGALURU: Karnataka’s Congress govt has ordered a probe into whether DGP (Police Housing Corporation) Ramachandra Rao had any role in the alleged gold-smuggling racket of his daughter and Kannada actress Ranya Rao. A one-man committee, led by additional chief secretary (ACS) Gaurav Gupta, will investigate the matter.Senior officers were reportedly unaware that a constable had…
BENGALURU: A special court for economic offences in the city Friday remanded Kannada actor Ranya Rao, caught with 14.2kg gold at Kempegowda International Airport Monday night, in three-day custody of Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI).Daughter of senior IPS officer and director general of police (Karnataka Police Housing Corporation) Ramachandra Rao, Ranya was caught allegedly smuggling…
BENGALURU: Stung by the way the protocol wing at KIA was misused to allegedly aid gold-smuggling operations, the state govt has decided to revise the standard operating procedures, stating family members and friends of senior bureaucrats will not be entitled to use the services of protocol staff. Additional chief secretary (home) Umashankar SR said security…
NEW DELHI: Following the arrest of Kannada actress Ranya Rao in the alleged gold smuggling case, Karnataka government asserted that the law applies equally to everyone.“She is an accused for indulging in smuggling. The law will take its course, whether she is the DGP’s, the CM’s or the prime minister’s daughter…If there is any official…
BENGALURU: Sandalwood actor Ranya Rao, daughter of director general of police (Police Housing Corporation) Ramachandra Rao, was arrested by Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) sleuths at the Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) on Monday night, on charges of gold smuggling.Ranya, who had arrived from Dubai, was caught with 14kg of gold bars concealed in a belt…
The Union Budget has put a check on illegal imports of gold under the disguise of platinum alloy, which was being done using a loophole in the trade deal with UAE under the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA). The Budget has introduced a separate HS (Harmonised System) code for platinum alloy so that no other…
KOZHIKODE: A statement purportedly misattributed to Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan about smuggled gold and hawala money entering the state’s predominantly Muslim Malappuram district for “anti-national” activities snowballed on Wednesday into a full-blown political slugfest, with Congress alleging that narratives usually spun by the Sangh Parivar were now coming out of the Left’s mouth.Vijayan’s clarification on…
