Bengaluru, March 10 -- The Economic Offences Court in Bengaluru on Monday sent Kannada actress Ranya Rao to judicial custody till March 24 in connection with a gold smuggling case.

Ramya Rao was produced before the bench of Vishwanath C Gowdar at the special court for economic offences in Bengaluru after three days of Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) custody.

The court had asked the DRI official to produce the actress before the court by 4 pm and she was as produced after completing a medical examination.

Ranya Rao sought two minutes to interact with the advocates, to which the court reacted positively.

Ranya Rao also alleged that the DRI officials had verbally harassed her during her three-day interrogation. To this, the DRI...