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Mumbai: Despite getting bail from the Bombay High Court in a drugs case, superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan will spend another night in Mumbai’s Arthur Road Jail as documents related to his release reached the jail authorities in time on Friday. The high court imposed 14 conditions on him, including bond payment of Rs 1 lakh and weekly visit to the NCB office here.
In the evening, a special court issued a release memo for Aryan Khan, granted bail by the HC on Thursday, 25 days after his arrest in a case related to the alleged seizure of drugs on a cruise ship off Mumbai coast earlier this month. , but could not meet their legal papers submission deadline.
Shah Rukh Khan’s actor-friend Juhi Chawla was a bailiff for her 23-year-old son before a special court designated to hear cases related to the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS).
We will not give special treatment to anyone. Law is same for all. The deadline for receiving the bail papers was 5.30 pm. That has passed. A senior jail official told PTI that he will not be released today.
The HC made available its operative order on Friday afternoon in which it imposed 14 bail conditions on Aryan Khan and his co-accused in the case Arbaaz Merchant and Munmun Dhamecha, who were also granted bail, their release stipulated on a personal bond of Rs. Was. 1 lakh with one or two sureties of equal amount.
In a five-page order signed by Justice NW Sambre, the high court said all three would have to submit their passports before the NDPS court and not leave India without the special court’s permission and would have to attend the NCB. To mark your attendance in the office every Friday between 11 AM to 2 PM.
The judge will pass a detailed bail order with reasons next week.
The HC said if the trio violated any of the conditions then the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), which is probing the cruise drugs case, “will directly apply to the special judge/court for cancellation of their bail.” “Every applicant/accused shall be liable to furnish one or more sureties on a personal bond of one lakh rupees,” the order said.
The HC said that the accused shall not personally or through any attempt to influence the witnesses or tamper with the evidence.
The high court directed the trio to surrender their passports before the special NDPS court and not leave India without the special court’s permission. The accused should give prior intimation to the NCB before leaving Mumbai and provide with his itinerary.
It states that Aryan Khan, his friend Merchant and Dhamecha, a fashion model, shall not indulge in any activity resembling the activities on the basis of which the present case has been registered against them for offenses under the NDPS Act.
The HC further said that the three would not establish any contact with any co-accused in the case or anyone involved in similar activities, and would join the investigation when called upon by the NCB.
“Once the trial starts, the applicant/accused shall not in any way try to delay the trial,” the court said.
Aryan Khan and Merchant are lodged in central Mumbai’s Arthur Road Jail, while Dhamecha is in Byculla Women’s Jail.
Chawla along with Aryan Khan’s legal team including advocate Satish Maneshinde reached the special court and submitted bail and necessary documents. They appeared before Special Judge VV Patil where Maneshinde said Chawla would stand as bail and submitted his Aadhaar card for verification.
While Chawla stood before the judge, Maneshinde told the court that the actress had known the applicant (Aryan Khan) since childhood and that she and her father (Shah Rukh Khan) were professionally connected. The court accepted the bail after verification after which Chawla was asked to go to the registry department of the court to sign the required papers.
There, a crowd gathered to click a photo with the actress.
After Chawla signed the papers, he was sent back to the court for the judge to sign the surety bond and issue a release memorandum.
While leaving the court building, Chawla told reporters, “There is a sense of relief in the family. We are all happy that it is over.” Aryan Khan’s legal team later left the court with a memorandum for Arthur Road Jail, but the 5.30 pm deadline for the jail authorities to accept the release documents failed to complete.
Earlier, Aryan Khan’s legal team had indicated that a slight adjournment till 7 pm is possible.
Aryan Khan, Merchant and Dhamecha were arrested by the NCB on October 3 and booked under relevant sections of the NDPS Act for possession, consumption, sale/purchase of banned drugs and conspiracy and abetment. His arrest came a day after the NCB raided the cruise ship and claimed to have seized banned drugs. So far 20 people have been arrested in this case and two of them were granted bail by the special NDPS court earlier this week.
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