New Delhi, April 16 -- The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the Central Economic Intelligence Bureau's (CEIB) preventive detention of Kannada actor Harshavardhini Ranya Rao and co-accused Sahil Jain under the Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Activities Act (COFEPOSA) in an alleged gold smuggling case.

A bench of justices MM Sundresh and NK Singh dismissed a petition filed by family members of the two accused, seeking their release. The petitioners had challenged a Karnataka high court order passed in December last year, which held that there was nothing illegal about the CEIB's detention orders in the case.

The apex court held that there was sufficient material before the authorities to justify their detentio...