According to those present in the hearing, the NCB is represented by the Additional Solicitor General (AG) Anil C Singh and Advocate Advait M Sethna, while Advocate Satish Maneshinde was representing Aryan Khan, and lawyers Tarak Syed representing Arbaaz Merchant and Munmun Dhamecha.
During various arguments, ASG, Anil C Singh tried to draw parallels between the Aryan Khan case and the Riya Chakraborty case from last year. To this, advocate Maneshinde pointed out the disparities between the two cases. The ASG then argued in court that it could show Aryan’s involvement from other circumstances, which Maneshinde further denied. Back and forth during this, the ASG remarked, “Here it is (the intoxicant) recovered from the ship”. To which Maneshinde replied, ‘The ship is not mine. You should have arrested the thousands of other people on the ship.”
However, this was not the end of the arguments. After a while, Maneshinde said, “I have nothing to establish a relationship with the people on the ship.” To that, the ASG replied, “Why was he (Aryan) on the ship?” Before Maneshinde could answer, Tarak Sayeed replied, “There were 1300 people on board. It is not even that No. 1 (Aryan Khan) was dividing. He can buy the ship but…” Maneshinde then cut short the talks. The war of words between the advocates was animated and there were lots of heated debates.
Ultimately, the court decided that the accused should be kept in custody till October 7 so that the NCB can conduct a fair and effective investigation to prove the involvement or innocence of all the accused.
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