Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan had been sent to 14-day judicial custody and is currently lodged at the Arthur Road jail, Mumbai.
Earlier, Mumbai Magistrate Court had rejected Aryan’s bail, citing the “the plea is not maintainable”.
While the 23-year-old’s bail application had already been rejected twice previously, his team had moved to Mumbai Session Court for bail.
Today (October 13), the sessions court has adjourned Aryan’s bail hearing till tomorrow (October 14), as per India Today.
According to TOI, senior advocate Amit Desai, who is representing Aryan, has stated, “The 13 gms of cocaine are not from Khan and neither are the ecstasy pills, mephedrone. Nothing is from him. He did not have cash. He did not have plans to consume or sell drugs. On that Sunday, only these people were arrested, whereas the panchnama has more people also. They were arrested for involvement in consumption, sale and purchase. There are WhatsApp chats, pictures, they said they are apprehending more persons, after all this, Khan was remanded till Monday.
The next date, 5 more were arrested and apart from those stated above, because of all the ramifications and international links, they sought for custody. Then they were remanded till October 7, when there was only one other person whose name was given in the remand – Aachit – who was consequential. There is NCB’s copy-paste here of remand also. But the arrests are beyond the cruise now. And 17 is a name through our statement, and based on that, he was arrested. But the arrest was for FIR on the cruise. Choker, Ishmeet, Sateja, Jaswal were clubbed with Khan. For further confrontation with Kumar, they sought for Khan’s remand.”
Satish Maneshinde, Aryan’s lawyer, had previously argued in court that NO drugs were recovered from Aryan or his bag. As per NDTV, Satish also stated that Aryan wasn’t connected to the organizers or Arbaaz Merchant’s activities.
