Kannada actor Ranya Rao, arrested in a gold smuggling case, has submitted a petition alleging custodial torture. She claims police physically assaulted her, denied food and sleep, and forced her to sign documents. The court has rejected her bail plea. The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence is investigating the case, which involves 15 kg of gold seized at the airport. The Enforcement Directorate has initiated raids in Karnataka, suspecting an international smuggling network.
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00:00News that's coming in with regards to the gold smuggling case. It's Kannada actor Raniara who's now alleging custodial torture
00:07She submitted a petition to the prisoners officials
00:10She claims that the policemen physically arrested her also claims that the cops slapped her multiple times
00:17In a petition she said that she's been denied sleep and food by the policemen
00:22Falsely implicated to shield the suspects. This is what a petition says which has been filed to the prison officials
00:29This is Raniara who's now submitted a petition to the police officials and she's alleging custodial torture in this petition
00:42She claims she has been physically she claims that the cops physically arrested her
00:47Slapped her multiple times denied her sleep and food also said that she's been falsely implicated
00:53Because the policemen want to shield the real suspects
00:59The court has rejected Raniara's bail plea
01:02Her legal team is now looking at knocking on the sessions court's doors
01:05But till the time there is no verdict coming on to the with regards to her bail plea. She has been given judicial custody
01:13And now she's alleging judicial torture. She submitted a petition to the prison officials
01:18She's saying that the policemen physically assaulted her slapped her multiple times
01:23Denied sleep and even food by the policeman
01:26She in fact goes ahead and says that she has been falsely
01:29Implicated to shield the suspects all this began to unravel on the 4th of March
01:35That's the day when she returned from Dubai to India
01:39She was being escorted out of the airport by two local policemen
01:43The customs officials stopped her and when they frisked her
01:47They found close to 15 kgs of gold in her jackets and on her waist
01:53My colleague Nagarjun Dwarkanath is now joining me on the story
01:56Nagarjun, it seems like she's not going down without a fight
02:00She's now filed a petition and claiming that the policemen physically assaulted her slapped her and they had been denying her food
02:09This letter has been written on the 6th of March almost 10 days before is what we are told
02:14This was when she got arrested and she was taken into custody
02:18What in the letter contains is that she's she's alleged that she was slapped 10 to 15 times for the officers and she was physically
02:26assaulted and also
02:28The officials threatened that she would they would reveal her father's identity
02:31This was an initial phases when she got arrested
02:34But the letter has been written to the additional director general of a DRI unit Bengaluru zone
02:41through the superintendent of police
02:43The Bangalore Central Prison
02:46what she said that she was and
02:49made to force to sign 50-60 papers and along with 40 blank white sheets is what
02:56To hear anything. We have to hear what DRI is to say
02:59But neither this petition letter was discussed in the court of law or the DRI has not issued any press note as of now
03:08Thank You Nagarjun Dwakarnath my colleague who's saying that no press note has come from the DRI
03:13But this letter has been written on the 6th of March in this petition
03:17Rania Rao claims that she has been slapped by the policemen. She's been denied food and sleep
03:27Staying with this case. There's a lot of trouble that is mounting for Rania Rao in the smuggling case
03:32Another suspect actor Tarun Raj is also in custody and he's suspected to be involved with Rania Rao in the smuggling syndicate
03:40The special court has denied bail to the Kannada actor Rania Rao in the smuggling case
03:45Stating that the charges against her are very serious
03:48During the hearing Rania's lawyer claimed that the legal procedures were not followed by the DRI
03:53During her arrest and when the investigation was going on
03:57Rania's legal team is now preparing to approach the sessions court for relief
04:01But until a verdict is delivered on her bail application
04:04She will remain in judicial custody. The enforcement directorate on the other side has initiated raids in Karnataka
04:10Suspecting this to be an international gold smuggling network
04:13The CBI is also scrutinizing footage from Rania's recent wedding to uncover a potential connection to the smuggling operation
04:30If we don't stop the smuggling operations, we won't be able to communicate officially
04:36If the investigation is ongoing, we won't know until the investigation is over
04:42The gold smuggling case where Rania Rao is arrested
04:47It's a very high profile case
04:50Since that lady is the daughter of a senior IPS officer
04:54And the amount, the gold that has been seized worth more than 13 crores
04:59It's not only the first of its kind, it's not only a sensational case
05:02I think in recent times it's the first of its kind
05:05Where CBI has already intervened
05:08ED is investigating the matter
05:11Even DRI has also
05:14Has already seized off the matter. So it's really a rarest of the rarest case
05:19Where it has called the attention of not only the country, even the international attention has been
05:26there in this case