Aryan Khan drug case: NCB arrests another drug peddler from Powai after name cropped up during interrogation – Times of India

The Narcotics Control Bureau has arrested another drug peddler in connection with the seizure of banned drugs from a cruise ship off the Mumbai coast. NCB the official said on Wednesday. NCB’s Mumbai regional unit nabbed the drug smuggler from suburban Powai late Tuesday night after his name cropped up during interrogation of those arrested earlier in the cruise drug party case, the official said.

With this, the anti-drug agency has so far arrested 17 people including Bollywood superstars in this case. Shahrukh Khanson of Aryan Khan, and some “high-profile organizers” belonging to a Delhi-based event management company.

Apart from Aryan Khan, those arrested by the NCB include Arbaaz Merchant, Munmun Dhamecha, Nupur Satija, Ishmeet Chadha, Mohak Jaiswal, Gomit Chopra, Vikrant Chhokar and a drug supplier from suburb Juhu.

In an operation conducted on Monday and Tuesday, the NCB arrested four organizers associated with an event management firm, identified as Gopal G Anand, Sameer Sehgal, Manav Singhal and Bhaskar Arora.

have also been arrested Shreyas Nair, Manish Rajgaria and Evin Sahu, the agency had said earlier.

Action is on at various places in Mumbai and other places against drug peddlers and people linked to the Cruise Drug Party case.

Earlier, Aryan Khan’s lawyer had claimed that no drugs were recovered from his client.

The NCB on Sunday said they have seized 13 grams of cocaine, five grams of MD, 21 grams of charas and 22 tablets of ecstasy and Rs 1.33 lakh after raiding the Goa-bound ship.

Family members of some of the arrested accused gathered outside the NCB office in south Mumbai on Tuesday.

Arbaaz Merchant’s father Aslam Merchant told media persons that his son and Aryan Khan are innocent.

The NCB told a court here on Tuesday that the case has become like the novels of Agatha Christie and Sherlock Holmes, with “every moment with new twists and turns”.

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