{"id":84663,"date":"2025-03-05T06:01:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T06:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=84663"},"modified":"2025-03-05T06:01:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T06:01:51","slug":"who-is-ranya-rao-kannada-actor-arrested-on-gold-smuggling-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=84663","title":{"rendered":"Who Is Ranya Rao, Kannada Actor Arrested On Gold Smuggling Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kannada actor Ranya Rao was arrested at Bengaluru&#8217;s Kempegowda International Airport after 14.8 kilograms of gold was allegedly found in her possession. She was produced before a judge on Tuesday evening and was remanded to 14-day judicial custody.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here is all you need to know about her:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rao hails from Karnataka&#8217;s Chikamagaluru. She completed an engineering degree from Dayanad Sagar College of Engineering in Bangalore.<\/li>\n<li>Rao made her film debut in 2014 opposite Kannada superstar Sudeep in &#8216;Maanikya&#8217; (2014). A remake of 2013 Telugu film Mirchi, Maanikya portrays Rao as Manasa, a woman from an influential family who becomes Sudeep&#8217;s love interest.<\/li>\n<li>She has also appeared in Tamil film Wagah (2016) opposite Vikram Prabhu. Ranya plays Prabhu&#8217;s love interest in the film, which shows an Indian soldier escorting her back home to Pakistan after riots break out in India. is caught in a fix when riots break out in Kashmir and amidst all the protest against the Pakistani residents there, he has to take his lover back to her home, in Pakistan.<\/li>\n<li>In the Kannada comedy film Pataki (2017), she portrays Sangeetha, a journalist and the love interest of actor Ganesh&#8217;s character.<\/li>\n<li>She claims to be the stepdaughter of IPS officer and Director General of Police (Police Housing Corporation) Ramachandra Rao.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u200bKannada actor Ranya Rao was arrested at Bengaluru&#8217;s Kempegowda International Airport after 14.8 kilograms of gold was allegedly found in her possession.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kannada actor Ranya Rao was arrested at Bengaluru&#8217;s Kempegowda International Airport after 14.8 kilograms of gold was allegedly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":84664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/n1heqg58_ranya-rao_625x300_05_March_25-0Bv7Hm.jpeg",1200,675,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/n1heqg58_ranya-rao_625x300_05_March_25-0Bv7Hm-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/n1heqg58_ranya-rao_625x300_05_March_25-0Bv7Hm-300x169.jpeg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/n1heqg58_ranya-rao_625x300_05_March_25-0Bv7Hm-768x432.jpeg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/n1heqg58_ranya-rao_625x300_05_March_25-0Bv7Hm-1024x576.jpeg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/n1heqg58_ranya-rao_625x300_05_March_25-0Bv7Hm.jpeg",1200,675,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/n1heqg58_ranya-rao_625x300_05_March_25-0Bv7Hm.jpeg",1200,675,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/n1heqg58_ranya-rao_625x300_05_March_25-0Bv7Hm-825x575.jpeg",825,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/n1heqg58_ranya-rao_625x300_05_March_25-0Bv7Hm-590x410.jpeg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?author=0"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?cat=1\" rel=\"category\">Uncategorized<\/a>","tag_info":"Uncategorized","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}