Bengaluru, March 19 -- The Karnataka Assembly witnessed a verbal brawl between the Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress legislators over actress Ranya Rao, who is in judicial custody over her alleged involvement in a gold smuggling case.

BJP MLA Sunil Kumar raised the issue of Rao in the Assembly and said, "In this gold smuggling case, as per the report, she has travelled more than 25 times to Dubai, and now 14 kg gold is caught. It is clear that gold smuggling is happening in Bengaluru and a caught person is the daughter of a police officer. Everything has to come out."

The BJP MLA questioned how the protocol could be given to a senior police officer's daughter.

"How can someone be allowed to take protocol and support in that way? How ...