Actress Ranya Rao moves bail petition in Karnataka High Court
Bengaluru (PTI): Kannada actress Ranya Rao approached the Karnataka High Court on Tuesday for bail after her plea was rejected by three subordinate courts one after another in the gold smuggling case.
Ranya Rao's advocate B S Girish, has filed the bail petition in the Karnataka High Court.
On March 27, the 64th CCH Sessions Court in Bengaluru rejected her bail plea, following an earlier denial by the Special Court for Economic Offences on March 14. Prior to this, the Magistrate Court had also refused her bail request, citing the gravity of the charges against her.
During a previous hearing, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) informed the court that Ranya Rao had admitted to purchasing gold illegally using hawala money.
She was arrested on March 3 at Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru with 14.8 kg of gold.
The DRI has initiated legal proceedings under Section108 to investigate potential financial irregularities and violations of the law.
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Bantwal police arrest two men for illegal sale of narcotics, seize two vehicles, 810 gm ganja
Mangaluru: Bantwal Rural Police have arrested two men who were allegedly attempting to sell narcotics illegally near the National Highway 75 stretch in Hanumanagar of Thumbay in Bantwal taluk on Saturday evening.
The police team, led by Bantwal Rural Sub-inspector Manjunath T, held the operation on being informed that the arrested men, identified as Sameer (31) of Thumbay and Muhammad Asif (35) of Goodinabali, were trying to sell narcotics illegally at the said place. When they reached the place, they are learned to have found two men standing in a suspicious manner beside a car and an auto rickshaw parked on an empty plot near the highway. The policemen caught and questioned the men, who confessed that they had been trying to sell ganja.
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The team, on checking the car, reportedly found 450 gram of the narcotic along with 360 gram in the auto rickshaw. The narcotic and the two vehicles have been seized by the police.
A case has been registered against Sameer and Asif at the Bantwal Rural Police Station, the Department has said in a press statement.
