Mumbai Court Rejects Aryan Khan's Bail Plea in Cruise Ship Drugs Case

 

New Delhi: A Mumbai sessions court has rejected the bail plea of Aryan Khan, son of Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan, in a drugs case.

Special Judge V.V. Patil, designated to hear cases related to the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act also rejected Khan’s co-accused Arbaaz Merchant and Munmun Dhamecha’s bail applications.

The Narcotics Control Bureau had arrested the three on October 3 after a raid on the previous day at the departure station of a cruise ship.

They were booked under sections 8(c) read with 20b (purchase), 27 (consumption), 28 (attempt to commit offence), 29 (abetment/ conspiracy) and 35 (presumption of culpable mental state) of the NDPS Act, LiveLaw has reported.

Khan and Merchant are lodged at the Arthur Road prison in Mumbai and Dhamecha is lodged at the Byculla women’s prison. All three are in judicial custody.

Appearing for the NCB, Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Anil Singh had earlier claimed that there was evidence to show that Aryan Khan was a “regular consumer of drugs for the last few years.”

Khan’s lawyers have sought to highlight that nothing was recovered from him personally.

The ASG said that drugs were seized from Merchant at the docks, and they were meant for consumption by both Aryan and him and that Aryan was “in contact with members of an international drug racket.”

Senior Advocate Amit Desai, representing Aryan Khan, said the NCB was pointing to international trafficking racket, but if the consumer states from where he procured drugs, then “the chain is complete”.

On Aryan’s WhatsApp chats, which the NCB counsel had sought to establish as incriminating evidence, Desai had said that today’s youth have different ways of expressing themselves.

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