Aryan Khan Drug Case: All 8 accused, including Aryan Khan, have tested negative for COVID-19
New Delhi:
Aryan Khan, son of movie star Shah Rukh Khan, bail plea is being heard in the Mumbai drugs-on-cruise case. He was sent to judicial custody by the Magistrate’s court yesterday. Aryan Khan was supplied drugs by one of the other men arrested in the cruise ship drug bust, the anti-drugs agency said in court yesterday as it argued against the 23-year-old being given bail. On Monday, he was denied bail after his sensational arrest and was sent to the custody of anti-drugs agency Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) till yesterday by a Mumbai court.
Aryan Khan and other accused are being taken to jail from the NCB office, as per sources. After their medical they’ll be sent to jail. Men will be sent to Arthur Road jail and women to Byculla jail.
All 8 accused, including Aryan Khan, have tested negative for COVID-19.
“I am of the view that no custodial interrogation is required as sufficient time was given,” the judge said.
The 23-year-old and the other accused spent the night at the offices of the drugs control agency, since the transfer hours for the jail was over.
Shah Rukh and Gauri Khan were not present in court. But they will now be able to meet him — the court allowed family visits at the offices of the agency.
All eight were arrested on Sunday after the anti-drugs agency went undercover and raided a rave party on Saturday evening on the “Cordelia” cruise sailing from Mumbai to Goa.
The raids produced a haul of 13 grams of cocaine, 21 grams of charas, 22 pills of MDMA and 5 grams of MD, the anti-drugs bureau said. The drugs were found hidden in clothes, underwear and purses, reported news agency Press Trust of India, quoting an unnamed official of the anti-drugs bureau.
Here are the Live Updates on Mumbai Drug Bust Case involving Aryan Khan:
Satish Maneshinde: Nothing much has emerged in the five days and that is because there is nothing. I am from a respectable family and I am not likely to abscond. I am based in Mumbai. Accused who they say is connected to me is already in their custody.
Satish Maneshinde: I am 23-year old with no antecedents. I happen to be from Bollywood. When I reached there they searched me and nothing was found. They went through my mobile and they downloaded all the data. Mobile has been sent for forensic examination. From the first day till today nothing has emerged. Contact with Archit was revealed on first day and they took their own time. Their contention is I am required for confrontation. That has been rejected by the Supreme Court. Top Court says interrogation, investigation, confrontation can take place when someone is released on bail.
Satish Maneshinde: Supreme Court says don’t play around with the fundamental rights of citizens. They should not stand on technicalities. They should go by merit. There is no case on merit.
Satish Maneshinde: A person should not be compelled to go to jail
Satish Maneshinde: I have been found with nothing. Not even one gram, one ounce and so much capital is being made out of it. Power to grant regular bail means power to grant interim bail
Satish Maneshinde: Since I am not found in possession of anything I cannot be trucked with them
Satish Maneshinde: No material has been found on me or in my bag
Satish Maneshinde: where is the material to prosecute?
Satish Maneshinde: It is well settled position that the offence is bailable and non-bailable according to my learned friend
Satish Maneshinde: There is not even material before your honour that makes a case for consumption except for the statement they took from me.
Satish Maneshinde quotes from a judgement which says there is an unhealthy practice to hear or grant bail.
Satish Maneshinde quotes from judgements.
Satish Maneshinde: There is no prohibition on this court.
Satish Maneshinde: JCM Court has the power to grant bail. Magistrate is competent to release an accused if the sentence for the offence alleged is not punishable with death or life imprisonment.
Satish Maneshinde: Law is supreme. Supreme Court interprets only in conflicts
Satish Maneshinde: If there is power to grant remand, it is inherent in the power of the court to grant bail.
Additional Solicitor General: My submission is that there are orders. Even in this case the position is same. There are 17 accused in the same. If the contention is that offence carries sentence less than a year.
Court: It has to be seen if the court is competent or not…we will decide on it.
Additional Solicitor General: At this stage accused cannot be segregated or bifurcated. The accused were arrested in a single crime
Aryan Khan, Others Being Taken To Jail From NCB Office
Aryan Khan and other accused are being taken to jail from NCB office, as per sources. After their medical they’ll be sent to jail. Men will be sent to Arthur Road jail and women to Byculla jail.
NCB in reply : Bail applications are not maintainable and ill conceived
Additional Solicitor General: The present bail application is not maintainable in this court
Additional Solicitor General Anil Singh begins arguments on maintainability of bail petitions (not merits) in the cruise ship drug seizure case.
Hearing on maintainability of bail petitions filed by the accused to begin shortly
Additional Solicitor General Anil Singh now begins his arguments. First arguments on maintainability. Separate replies filed raising the issue of maintainability
NCB’s reply filed in court, copies given to lawyers of accused
Court waiting for reply to be filed
Additional Solicitor General: Reply is coming
Court: File your reply and give them a copy
Court: Yes I will decide
Additional Solicitor General: Once I raise the issue of maintainability it is the duty of the court to hear the issue first
Court: I will decide on it
Satish Maneshinde: We argued on law. They have their backs on their wall.
Additional Solicitor General: We are arguing on maintainability. If I raise the maintainability then the question of merits does not come into question.
Additional Solicitor General Anil Singh Arrives In Court
Additional Solicitor General Anil Singh arrives in Court to argue against bail petition moved in the magistrate’s court.
NCB Lawyers Yet To Arrive
Advocate Tarraq Sayyed informs court that the anti-drugs agency lawyers are on the way. Bail hearing to commence as soon as NCB lawyers arrive. NCB Special Counsel Advait Sethna’s junior informs the court that they are just preparing the replies and they will be in court in ten to fifteen minutes. NCB Special Counsel Advait Sethna’s junior informs the court that the Additional Solicitor General Anil Singh is also on the way.
Lawyers For Accused Arrive In Mumbai Court
Lawyers for the accused Satish Maneshinde, Tarraq Sayyed and Ali Kashif Khan Deshmukh arrive in court.
The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has arrested a Nigerian national in connection with the alleged seizure of drugs from a Goa-bound cruise ship off the Mumbai coast.
This has taken the number of arrested persons in the case — which includes Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan — to 18.
Nigerian national Chinedu Igwe was arrested from suburban Andheri on Wednesday, and 40 tablets of Ecstasy were found from his possession, an NCB official said.
Nationalist Congress Party leader Nawab Malik has said he will release evidence today to show that one of the people detained and later released by the Narcotics Control Bureau or NCB after the Mumbai drugs bust in a cruise ship was the in-law of a BJP leader.
The country’s anti-drugs agency has been running a “network” in Mumbai for the last one year “for only and only publicity,” Mr Malik told NDTV on Thursday, hours after superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s son, Aryan, was taken under judicial custody for a bail hearing in the drugs bust case.
The involvement of a BJP worker and a private detective in the raid on a cruise ship off the Mumbai coast by India’s anti-drugs agency has kicked up a controversy. The Narcotics Control Bureau or NCB conducted the raid on Sunday and arrested eight people, including actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan. The NCB said drugs like ecstasy and cocaine, among others, were found at a party on the cruise ship.
Days later, videos of the raid surfaced online showing the two men escorting those who were detained that night into the NCB office.
