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Ranya Rao remains detained under COFEPOSA, and her step-father, a senior Karnataka police officer, was also questioned regarding the racket. (Express Photo)

DRI seeks 7-year jail for Kannada actress Ranya Rao, aides for smuggling over 100 kg of gold

November 21, 2025 3:54 pm

: Actress Ranya Rao, stepdaughter of senior Karnataka police officer K Ramachandra Rao, was arrested on her arrival from Dubai on March 3 with a consignment of 14.2 kg of gold, which was strapped on her body.

DRI discovered that both units equipped with complete setups for converting smuggled gold, in wax and other forms. (Express Photo)

'Operation Bullion Blaze': Melting units and illegal shops raided in Mumbai, gold worth Rs 15 crore seized

November 12, 2025 4:12 pm

DRI arrested 11 people, including the mastermind behind the racket, which allegedly smuggled gold to India to melt in covert furnaces and illegally sold the refined bullion on the grey market.

DRI busts factory involved in manufacturing Alprazolam in Gujarat's Valsad, seizes drugs worth ₹22 crore

November 06, 2025 1:56 pm

DRI arrested two people directly involved in the manufacturing and financing of Alprazolam, and an employee assisting them in production in Gujarat's Valsad.

DRI seizes Chinese-origin firecrackers worth Rs 4.82 crore at Nhava Sheva port

October 21, 2025 2:06 am

The agency said that they have arrested a key person in the case and questioned him to get leads on others involved in the illegal import of Chinese-origin fireworks into India.

'Operation Deep Manifest': DRI seizes 800 metric tonnes of Pakistan origin goods worth ₹ 12 crore, two arrested

September 13, 2025 11:58 pm

Such operations started post the Pahalgam terror attack after the Centre imposed a complete ban on direct or indirect import of Pakistan-origin goods to India on May 2 this year

Writ petitions filed by family members of Ranya Rao and her associates for their release from the Cofeposa detention are pending in the high court.

DRI slaps Rs 102-crore penalty on Kannada actress Ranya Rao for gold smuggling activities

September 02, 2025 10:37 pm

The investigations of the gold smuggling case involving the actress, who is the stepdaughter of a senior Karnataka police officer, revealed that she had gone 31 times to Dubai since 2024 and smuggled nearly 127 kg of gold valued at over Rs 100 crore, DRI sources said.