Shahrukh Khan’s Son Arrested From Cruise In Drug Case
Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan's 23-year-old son Aryan Khan was arrested following a raid at a party on a cruise ship off the coast of Mumbai by the NCB.
The Narcotics Control Bureau has stepped up action on anti-drugs cases since last year following the death of actorSushant Singh Rajput and a wide-ranging investigation into alleged drug abuse. On 2nd October there was a party on a cruise ship off the coast of Mumbai. According to the sources, NCB had a tip off that there was a rave party on the Cordelia Cruises. So on Saturday morning, the NCB team in plain clothes, boarded the Goa-bound ship disguised as normal passengers. The party began after the ship left Mumbai and was at sea. The NCB then waited for the party to start. Once the party started, they began the raids at 10 am and went on till 2 pm. Many people were taken for interrogation and then NCB arrested 8 people on 3rd October.
The NCB said that in the high-profile raid yielded 13 grams of cocaine, 21 grams of charas, 22 pills of MDMA and 5 grams of MD were found. During the operation, the suspects were searched and different drugs were recovered from them, which they had hidden in their clothes, undergarments and purses. Drugs were hidden in between sanitary pads and medicine boxes of other accused. 23 year old Aryan Khan is the eldest son of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan was amongst the arrested. NCB recovered drugs like ‘Charas’ from a lens case owned by Aryan Khan. However, it is not sure if Aryan Khan had consumed drugs or not. Aryan Khan was seen in a viral video on social media allegedly shot after the raids.
He was produced in court yesterday evening. The court granted custody of those arrested to the NCB till Monday. According to reports, Aryan Khan’s phone was being investigated, and sources close to the NCB have found plenty of chats where Aryan ordered and consumed drugs regularly. Because of this, he could possibly be charged under the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act. Shah Rukh Khan was seen leaving his home and heading for his lawyer's Satish Maneshinde’s office. Maneshinde has demanded that Aryan be given bail. Maneshinde is a very famous lawyer. He has represented many Bollywood personalities like Sanjay Dutt during the 1993 blast case, Salman Khan for the hit and run case and recently Rhea Chakraborty. Satish Maneshinde said, "Aryan had no ticket, no cabin or seat on board the cruise. He was there because he had been invited. He didn't even have a boarding pass. Nothing has been found on him. He was arrested on the basis of chat only."Besides Aryan Khan, the NCB had earlier released the names of the seven people who had been detained for questioning from the ship - Munmun Dhamecha, Nupur Sarika, Ismeet Singh, Mohak Jaswal, Vikrant Chhoker, Gomit Chopra, Arbaaz Merchant.
Jurgen Bailom, CEO and President of Cordelia Cruises in a statement said, "Cordelia Cruises is in no way, directly or indirectly, connected to this incident. Cordelia Cruises had rented its ship for a private event to a Delhi-based event management company. We are shocked by the drug case and we will never rent our ship to such people in the future. Our company is fully cooperating with the NCB” Last month in Gujarat officials had seized about 3,000 kg of heroin at Gujarat's Mundra port and around 37 kg of the narcotic drug, along with cocaine from Delhi and Noida in Uttar Pradesh.The Congress party in Maharashtra has said the raid and arrest was an attempt by the BJP government to divert people's attention from the "real issue" of the drugs seizure at Mundra port in Gujarat, which is a BJP ruled state.Many Bollywood celebrities came out in support of Shah Rukh Khan. Superstar Salman Khan visited Shah Rukh Khan’s house. Suniel Shetty said, “I would like to say that wherever there is a raid, several people are caught. And we assume that this child must have consumed drugs. But the proceedings are on, give that child a chance to breathe.”
