NDPS court rejects Aryan Khan's bail plea

October 20, 2021 15:07

Aryan Khan

Mumbai's Special NDPS court on Wednesday rejected the bail applications of Aryan Khan, Arbaaz Merchant and Munmun Dhamecha in the drugs on cruise ship case.

Aryan Khan and eight others were arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on October 3.

Aryan Khan's lawyers have argued that no drugs were found on him when NCB officers in disguise raided a rave party on a cruise ship.

Khan will now likely have to approach the High Court.

Additional Solicitor General Anil Singh representing the NCB had opposed the bail application filed by Aryan Khan and three others on the ground that they were are accused of illicit drug trafficking and criminal conspiracy under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.

For this reason, he argued, that Khan could not be treated separately from the 17 others accused in the case and hence ought not be released when the investigation was only at a preliminary stage.

Singh submitted that NCB was trying to uncover a possible international drug trafficking chain in which all the accused including Khan and his friend Arbaaz Merchant were possibly involved and hence their custody was paramount to avoid any kind of influence on the other witnesses.

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