Gold smuggling-accused actress Ranya Rao has alleged that the Directorate of Income Intelligence (DRI) sleuths again and again slapped and hit her all over custody, and demanded she signal statements below threats that they’re going to “divulge” her stepfather, DGP Okay. Ramachandra Rao.
Ranya Rao, whose bail plea has been denied, is at this time in judicial custody and the DRI, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) are investigating the case.
The state executive has appointed Further Leader Secretary Gaurav Gupta to seem into the side of the involvement of DGP Ramachandra Rao and police lapses.
Making the intense allegations in opposition to the DRI sleuths in a letter to the Further Director Normal, DRI, on March 6 when she was once being despatched to the Central Prison in Bengaluru after her arrest on the Bengaluru World Airport, submitted during the prison’s Leader Superintendent of Prisons, the actress asked the ADG that no reliance be put on any of her statements recorded all over the length from the time of her apprehension and until she was once produced within the court docket.
“I’m penning this letter to you with the false case registered in opposition to me, making allegations that whilst I used to be coming from Dubai, I used to be discovered sporting gold weighing greater than 14 kilograms. Your officials didn’t even allow me to give an explanation for that I’m blameless on this subject. They apprehended me from within the plane and from that point of my apprehension from the plane until I used to be produced ahead of a court docket, considerably, I used to be hit and slapped on my face about 10-15 occasions by way of the officials whom I will be able to determine,” she alleged.
“Regardless of repeated hitting and slapping me on my face, I refused to signal the statements they ready. One of the vital officials stated if you happen to don’t seem to be signing papers, we can divulge your father’s title and id even if we all know he’s nowhere concerned. Because of immense drive to worry and bodily attack on me, I’ve signed about 50-60 typed pages and round 40 clean white papers handiest by way of power by way of DRI officials,” Ranya Rao claimed.
In her letter, the actress additionally alleged that since she was once taken into custody by way of the DRI officials from round 6.45 p.m. on March 3, until she was once produced ahead of the court docket at 7.50 p.m. on March 4, she was once now not even approved to have correct sleep and meals.
“Actually, the officials purposely denied me sleep,” she stated.
“Actually because of the DRI officers’ beside the point remedy of me, from disadvantaged sleep, bodily attacks akin to slaps and hits on my face together with threatening to reveal my father and circle of relatives even despite the DRI officers realizing that he’s nowhere concerned in addition to I’m nowhere concerned… those are compelled signatures,” she claimed.
Reiterating that she was once compelled to signal all paperwork, Ranya Rao claimed that she was once blameless and falsely implicated.
“No mahajar, seek as said had been performed and now not a factor was once recovered from me. Some individuals from Delhi, who had been said to be officials, obviously sought after to give protection to another passengers and feature falsely implicated me,” she alleged.
“I used to be additionally threatened once more within the automobile on the best way to court docket on March 4 that if I discussed any of the attack to the pass judgement on, they’d divulge my father’s title…,” she alleged.
Then again, the particular court docket for financial offences, in its order rejecting her bail petition, regarding the allegations of torture by way of the DRI, famous: “The opposite floor for bail prompt by way of the accused Ranya Rao as to her sleep was once disadvantaged all over the process interrogation and the similar was once opposite to the fitting of recreational as envisaged by way of the Charter of India, can’t be authorised at this juncture because the complainant company is claiming the interception/apprehension at the foundation of particular intelligence in addition to tracking the shuttle historical past of accused No.1 (Ranya Rao).”
