Kannada actor Ranya Rao denied being a part of a gold smuggling racket during questioning by the cops. Instead, she has reportedly claimed that she was ‘trapped’.
This comes after she earlier told her lawyers that she couldn’t sleep and keeps thinking ‘why did I get into it’.
“I keep thinking why did I get into it. My mind keeps going back to the day at the airport. I cannot sleep. I am having mental trauma,” she told her lawyers amid tears,” she told her lawyers while being produced in court on Friday.
According to the report, the authorities want Rao to reveal who trapped her in smuggling if it was indeed what happened, and also the circumstances that led to her involvement.
The case seems to bear similarities to an incident in Chennai last year, where a Kerala-based software employee’s wife was caught smuggling 12 kg of gold from Dubai.
Kannada film actor Ranya Rao, who was arrested on March 3 at the Bengaluru International Airport while allegedly attempting to smuggle 14.2 kg of gold on her person while returning from a visit to Dubai, was part of a syndicate, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) indicated before a special court in the process of obtaining her custody.
A special court for economic offences in Bengaluru on Friday handed Rao alias Harshavardini Ranya, 33, to DRI custody for three days. The DRI had sought her custody on the grounds of investigating the existence of a larger conspiracy and gold smuggling racket.
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