Bengaluru: The senior police officer whose daughter – Ranya Rao – was arrested at Bengaluru airport Monday night, after officers found 14.8kg of gold in her possession, has been left “shocked and devastated” by the data, and has moreover sought to distance himself from the entire affair.”The regulation will do its job. There is not a black mark on my career,” he suggested data firm ANI.
Ramachandra Rao, Director-Regular of Police (Karnataka State Police Housing Firm), moreover said, “Like one other father, I was shocked and devastated when it received right here to my uncover by means of the media. I was not acutely aware of any of these things. I don’t want to say one thing additional.”
“She is not going to be dwelling with us… she resides individually collectively along with her husband. There ought to be some draw back between them… (presumably) ensuing from some family factors,” the best cop said.
Ranya Rao is Mr Rao’s stepdaughter. The senior police officer re-married after his first partner died. His second partner has two daughters from her first marriage, of whom Ms Rao is one.
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Ranya Rao was arrested by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence Monday after she arrived from Dubai on an Emirates flight. Provide said the arresting officers found her trying to smuggle gold into the nation by carrying an enormous amount and concealing the rest in her garments.
There are moreover tales saying two aides carried gold bars in briefcases.
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Preliminary inquiries advocate she used her connections to skip security checks; she reportedly launched herself as a result of the daughter of a Karnataka DGP and contacted native cops for an escort.
Nonetheless, authorities had been monitoring Ms Rao for some time; their suspicions had been aroused after she made 4 journeys to Dubai in 15 days. And, after this last journey, they sprag their entice.
That they’d nearly cleared customs and had been about to go away the airport when the DRI employees stopped her and commenced a search. The virtually 15kg of gold that was seized has been valued at a staggering Rs 12.56 crore, which is probably going one of many largest from Bengaluru airport in current instances.
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And that wasn’t all.
Officers then searched Ms Rao’s home, which she shared collectively along with her husband, on Bengaluru’s Lavelle Freeway and positioned Rs 2.06 crore in gold jewellery and cash worth Rs 2.67 crore.
“The passenger has been positioned beneath arrest beneath associated provisions of the Customs Act, and remanded to judicial custody. The total inside the case stands at Rs. 17.29 crore, marking an enormous blow to organised gold smuggling networks,” a DRI assertion said.
The investigation is now centered on uncovering attainable hyperlinks to cops, or others, who might need helped her. It might moreover arrange if she was performing alone or was half of a much bigger group.
Ms Rao – an actor recognized for her perform reverse Kannada well-known particular person Sudeep in ‘Maanikya‘, which was launched in 2014 – is now being questioned on the DRI’s office inside the metropolis.