SunstarTV Bureau: Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan allegedly arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) during raid at a rave party on board the Empress Cruise ship, Mumbai coast on October 2 night.
Reportedly, the drugs were found hidden in between sanitary pads and medicine boxes of other accused.
Aryan Khan was carrying drugs in his lens boxes. Drugs were also recovered from women’s sanitary pads and medicine boxes at the rave party, India Today reported quoting NCB sources.
The arrest was made in connection with the seizure of 13 gms cocaine, 5 gms MD, 21 gms charas, and 22 pills of MDMA, totally worth Rs 1,33,000 from him.
Aryan and seven other youths were taken into custody by the NCB, and subsequently, formally arrested.
Initially, Aryan and two others – Munmun Dhamecha and Arbaaz Merchant – were arrested, and the trio was produced before the Esplanade Magistrate Court, amid tight security, late on Sunday and sent to the NCB’s custody for one day till Monday, a prosecution lawyer told media persons.
Charged under various sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, they will be produced again before the court on Monday for their judicial custody, even as their legal team, including Aryan Khan’s lawyer Satish Maneshinde, plan to challenge the NCB action in the Bombay High Court on Monday.
The others who remained under the NCB’s detention – Nupur Satija, Ishmeet Singh Chadha, Mohak Jaiswal, Vikrant Chhokar, and Gomit Chopra, were subsequently arrested.
They will be produced before a magistrate’s court after undergoing their medical tests for remand.
Earlier, NCB’s Superintendent V.V. Singh, in his arrest memo, said that Aryan Khan was being arrested under the NDPS Act for his “involvement in the consumption, sale and purchase of contraband” (drugs) along with other known and unknown persons.
