Actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan on Wednesday moved the Bombay High Court after a special court rejected his bail in a busted case under the Narcotics Drugs Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act. drug racket on a cruise on 2 october
The High Court is expected to hear the appeal of Mr. Aryan Khan (23) on Thursday. Mr Khan, who is lodged in Arthur Road Jail, was arrested on October 3 by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) following a cruise raid.
Special Judge VV Patil also rejected the bail plea of 26-year-old Arbaaz Merchant and 39-year-old Munmun Dhamecha, who was arrested along with him.
Mr Khan had sought bail through senior advocate Amit Desai on the ground that there was no recovery of the banned material recovered from him.
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He has a role: NCB
Additional Solicitor General for NCB Anil Singh opposed Mr Khan’s bail saying: “Mr. Khan has a role in illegal purchase and consumption of contraband. It is Prima facie It was learned that he used to purchase banned substances from Mr. Merchant and his associated sources, from whom six grams of charas were recovered.
On October 2, the agency seized 13 grams of cocaine, five grams of MD (mephedrone), 21 grams of charas, 22 tablets of MDMA (ecstasy) and ₹1,33,000 in cash from the International Cruise Terminal in Mumbai.
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Mr Khan, along with eight others, has been charged under section 8(c) – production, manufacture, possessing, selling, purchase, transport, warehouse, use, consumption, import inter-state, export inter-state, import Prohibition on, in India, export from India or transship any narcotic drug or psychotropic substance, 20(b)—Penalty for contravention in relation to cannabis plant and cannabis, production, manufacture, possession, sale, purchase, transportation, Imports inter-state, exports inter-state or uses cannabis, 27 – Punishment for the use of any narcotic drug or psychotropic substance, 28 – Punishment for attempt to commit an offense and 29 – Punishment for abetment and criminal conspiracy Read with 35 – Estimation of Criminal Mental Status of NDPS Act.
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