Mumbai drug bust: Court says special NDPS court will hear case of Aryan Khan and others
A Mumbai court on Thursday (October 7) sent Aryan Khan and seven others to 14-day judicial custody in connection with the seizure of drugs on a cruise ship off the Mumbai coast. Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) took Bollywood star Shah Rukh KhanK’s son to his office in Mumbai after being produced before the Esplanade Magistrates’ Court. The accused will be kept in judicial custody at the NCB office till Friday as the jail will not accept new prisoners at this time. The court also said that the matter will now be heard by the Special Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) court.
The court said that “it will hear Aryan Khan’s bail plea at 12.30 pm on Friday” and asked the NCB to file a reply by then. Mumbai drug bust live updates: Aryan Khan and 7 others sent to 14-day judicial custody
So far 18 arrests have been made in the cruise ship raid case. A total of 17 have been produced in the court and the 18th person is yet to be produced in the Mumbai court. Achit Kumar, who is the 17th person arrested by NCB, was today remanded in NCB custody till 9th October.
He was arrested after Aryan Khan and Arbaaz Seth Merchant disclosed his name. An NCB team busted an alleged drugs party on board the Cordelia cruise ship, which was on its way to Goa in the middle of the sea on the night of October 2. Eight people, including Aryan Khan, Arbaaz Seth Merchant, Munmun Dhamecha, Vikrant Chhokar, Ismeet Singh, Nupur Sarika, Gomit Chopra and Mohk Jaswal, were produced in Mumbai’s Esplanade Court on Monday, which sent them to NCB custody till October 7. Given. Aryan Khan’s bail rejected: Shahrukh’s son and 7 others to remain in judicial custody for 14 days. key points
He was arrested on October 3 in connection with the seizure of drugs on the cruise ship. The three accused, including Aryan Khan, Arbaaz Seth Merchant and Munmun Dhamecha, were produced in Mumbai’s Esplanade Court, which remanded them to NCB custody till October 4 and again till October 7.
According to the NCB, eight people have been booked under sections 8C, 20B, 27 (punishment for consumption of any narcotic drug or psychotropic substance), 35 (presuming to be of unsound mental state) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS Act). Has been recorded. , 28 and 29. 8C of the NDPS Act refers to prohibition on production, manufacture, ownership, sale, purchase, transport, warehouse, use, consumption, inter-state import, inter-state export, import into India, export from India or transship does. Any narcotic drug or psychotropic substance while section 20B deals with punishment for the production, manufacture, possession, sale, purchase, transport, inter-state import, inter-state export or use of cannabis.
Advocate Satish Maneshinde, arguing in the defense of Aryan Khan, said in the court, “Accused number 1, Aryan Khan was invited for the cruise party. However, he did not have a boarding pass. They didn’t have any seats or cabins there. Secondly, nothing has been found from his possession as per the seizure. He has been arrested on the basis of chat only. NCB has also arrested Abdul Qadir Sheikh, Shreyas Nair, Manish Dariya, Avin Sahu and others.
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