Aryan Khan case | Bail or no bail, drug possession: What the NDPS Act says
The question remains: why the son of Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan was denied bail even when no drugs were found in his possession during the cruise drugs raid?
Relief, prayers and healing: Celebs react as High Court grants bail to Aryan Khan
Actors Sonam Kapoor, Swara Bhasker, R Madhavan and Rahul Dholakia were among the people who cheered for Shah Rukh Khan after his son Aryan Khan was granted bail by the Bombay High Court, over 20 days after his arrest in the case of seizure of banned drugs aboard a cruise ship off the Mumbai coast.
A single bench of Justice N W Sambre also granted bail to his co-accused Arbaaz Merchant and Munmun Dhamecha. (PTI)
Drugs case: 25 days after arrest, Aryan gets HC bail; SRK fans, B-Town figures hail order
Aryan Khan, son of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, was on Thursday granted bail by the Bombay High Court, 25 days after his arrest by the NCB in the case of seizure of banned drugs aboard a cruise ship off the Mumbai coast earlier this month, a drugs bust that triggered a series of controversies and put the central agency and its officials under the spotlight.
However, Aryan Khan is not likely to walk out of the Arthur Road jail, where he is currently lodged under judicial custody, immediately as the court is yet to give its operative order on the conditions imposed while granting bail. (PTI)
Hours after the Bombay High Court granted bail to Aryan Khan, Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan greeted the legal team. SRK was seen with senior counsel Amit Desai andsenior lawyer Satish Maneshinde who did the groundwork, and their team. SRK has not commented on the case so far.
"No father should go through this kind of situation,"Aryan Khan's lawyer Satish Maneshinde to News18.
JUST IN | Pune court remands Kiran Gosavi, NCB witness in cruise ship drug seizure case, in police custody till November 5 in a cheating case.
Though the Court has said that bail has been allowed, the release of Aryan Khan, Munmun Dhamecha and Arbaaz Merchant will only take place tomorrow, since the court will specify the bail conditions in the detailed order to be released tomorrow.
HC has granted bail to Aryan Khan and two others in drugs on cruise case. Court says it will keep the matter tomorrow for bail conditions.
Conspiracy is difficult to prove. Only conspirators know how they have conspired.Munmun threw the drug when she got to know the ship will be raided. We have CDR records to show she was in touch with Ishmeet.The statements of Baldev and Mummum(voluntary statements ) state she had the drug: ASG
ASG's submission is three fold.
-he(#AryanKhan) was found in conscious possession.
-he was connected with drug peddlers.
- Arrest is valid. It is only a lapse of 4 hours for remand.
ASG citedthe Supreme Courtorder in Pragya Singh Thakur's case. "They are all on the same point. That if by a valid judicial order a remand has been given...then not informing grounds of arrest cannot be claimed."
ASG respondedto Mukul Rohatgi's argument of illegal arrest saying,"Three remand orders of the magistrate have not been challenged. So now the accused cannot say the arrest is illegal".
ASG is citing para 14 and 15 of Ratan Malik's judgement on conscious possession.
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ASG referredto the Supreme court judgement in Ramsangh to say that in NDPS offences, "custody is the rule, bail is the exception".
ASG has said that "bail is not a rule" in NDPS cases, referringto a judgment to say bail can be denied if a prima facie case is there.
Why no action against cruise drugs party organisers? Nawab Malik
Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik, who has repeatedly termed the NCB's cruise drugs case as "fake", on Thursday sought to know why no action was taken against organisers of the cruise party.
He also claimed that an organiser of the cruise party was a "friend" of the Narcotics Control Bureau's (NCB) Mumbai zonal director Sameer Wankhede. An NCB team led by Wankhede had on October 2 raided the cruise ship off the Mumbai coast and claimed to have seized drugs. (PTI)
"It cannot be said that it (drugs) were only for consumption.We have applied Section 29 because out of 11 names in the secret note, 8 have been apprehended," ASG said, addingthat the cumulative drug quantity was commercial.
It was a colourful party that day.I was saying at least on Gandhi Jayanti you should have left these things:ASG
We have WhatsApp chat and the 65B certificate as well. Drugs were found from all of them: ASG
"Aryan and Arbaaz are childhood friends. They travelled together, they were going to be put up in the same room.They are saying we haven't tested for consumption. Where is the question of testing when they haven't consumed it? They were found in possession. It is our case thatAryan Khanwas found in conscious possession of the drug," ASG has said.
If two people are travelling together, and the first person knows the drug is with the other and it is for their consumption, even though the person may not be in actual physical possession, he may be in "conscious possession": ASG for the NCB
The Additional Solicitor General has saidthat even if Aryan is not found in possession, and an attempt is made, section 28 will apply. And if there is a conspiracy, automatically the rigours of section 37 of the NDPS Act will apply for bail.
ASG, in his arguments for NCB, saidAryan Khanis not a first-time offender. "He is a regular consumer for the past few years and the record shows that he jas been providing drugs. And there is a reference of bulk quantity and commercial quantity of drugs. He has been in contact with drug peddlers," he said.
Sameer Wankhede moves Bombay High Court seeking relief from probe
NCB officer Sameer Wankhede has moved the Bombay High Court seeking relief from probe, according to News18.
Aryan Khan's bail plea hearing will start in 20 to 30 minutes.
NCB being used to 'defame, harass' people, says Jayant Patil
Maharashtra minister and NCP state chief Jayant Patil on Thursday claimed that the NCBwas being used to "harass and defame" citizens. Speaking to reporters in Ratnagiri, he also said that party leader and state minister Nawab Malik, who has levelled various allegations against NCB's Mumbai zonal director Sameer Wankhede, was "bringing out the truth". (PTI)
Sameer Wankhede's sister files police complaint against Maha minister Nawab Malik
Yasmeen Wankhede, the sister of Narcotics Control Bureau's (NCB) Mumbai zonal director Sameer Wankhede, has filed a police complaint here seeking registration of an FIR against Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik for allegedly defaming her, an official said on Thursday. Sameer Wankhede is in the eye of a political storm following allegations of extortion in the high-profile cruise drugs case in which actor Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan was arrested. (PTI)
What Sameer Wankhede's wife told CM Uddhav Thackeray
In her letter, Redkar writes, "We're being insulted before people every day. A woman's dignity is being toyed with in Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj' state. Had Balasaheb been here today, he wouldn't have liked it..."
"He (Balasaheb) is not here today but you are. We see him in you, we trust you. I believe that you will not allow injustice to my family and me. As a Marathi, I look towards you with hopes of justice as a Marathi Manus. I request you for justice," Kranti Redkar Wankhede's letter further reads.
We're being insulted before people every day, Wankhede's wife writes to CM Uddhav Thackeray
Gupta said that Gosavi was hiding in Jalgaon, Hyderabad, Jabalpur, Lucknow but we have finally nabbed in Pune.He has been using name 'Sachin Patil' during hiding.
No demand yet to handover Gosavi, says Pune CP
Gupta adds that there is no such demand yet from Mumbai Police or any other agencyto handover Kiran Gosavi to them.
NCB witness Kiran Gosavi arrested in 2018 cheating case, says Pune CP Amitabh Gupta
Pune police has arrested Kiran Gosavi from a lodge, says CP Amitabh Gupta, adding that more details will be shared in the court.
Gupta said that Gosavi will be sent for medical checkups first. He also added that earlier Gosavi was named in a charge sheet.
I don't have to say anything, says Sameer Wankhede after being questioned by NCB
Kiran Gosavi to be produced in court later in the day
Kiran Gosavi was detained from outskirts of Pune in connection with a cheating case. The process to formally arrest him is under way, saysPune City CP Amitabh Gupta.
Gosavi was apparently present during the cruise ship raid and was seen at the NCB office when Aryan Khan was taken there. His selfies and videos with Aryan Khan have appeared on social media. Gosavi has been called an "independent witness" by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), which is probing the drugs case in which nearly 20 people were arrested.
Prabhakar Sail recentlytold media persons that he had overheard Gosavi telling one Sam D'Souza over the phone, after Aryan Khan was brought to the NCB office following the October 2 raid on the cruise ship, about a demand of Rs 25 crore and "to settle at Rs 18 crore as they have to give Rs eight crore to Sameer Wankhede".
Gosavi, said to be a "private investigator" whose photos and videos with actor Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan went viral on social media after the NCB's raid on the cruise ship off the Mumbai coast on October 2, had been absconding.
Prabhakar Sail is lying, says Kiran Gosavi
Kiran Gosavi, before being detained, alleged that Prabhakar Sail is lying. "All I want to request is his call detail record (CDR) report must be released. My CDR report or chats can be released, Prabhakar Sail andhis brother's CDR reports, as well as chats, should be released, everything will be clear."
"At least one minister or any leader of the opposition from Maharashtra must stand with me. At least they should request the Mumbai police what I am demanding (to release CDR & chats of Prabhakar Sail)," he added.
JUST IN | NCB witness Kiran Gosavi has been detained, says Amitabh Gupta, Pune Police Commissioner.
Mumbai police set up team for inquiry into 'extortion bid' in Aryan case
Mumbai Police has deputed police officers for enquiry into complaints of alleged extortion against NCB officers including zonal director Sameer Wankhede in the drugs bust case involving Aryan Khan, a senior police official said on Wednesday. Police are conducting inquiry into four complaints, filed by independent witness in the NCB case Prabhakar Sail, lawyers Sudha Dwivedi and Kanishka Jain, and Nitin Deshmukh, he said. (PTI)
Cruise ship drugs case: Mere presence can not prove involvement in conspiracy, says court in bail order
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Police personnel walk past the entrance of the Arthur Road Jail, where Aryan Khan, son of Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan, is under custody after his arrest in connection with a drug case, in Mumbai on October 27, 2021.
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NCB's Wankhede records statement before vigilance team
Narcotics Control Bureau's (NCB) Mumbai zonal director Sameer Wankhede on Wednesday recorded his statement for more than four hours before a team headed by NCB Deputy Director General (northern region) Gyaneshwar Singh in connection with the departmental vigilance probe into allegations of extortion in the drugs-on-cruise case in which Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan was arrested earlier this month.
Police record witness Sail's statement second time over allegation of extortion bid
Mumbai Police on Wednesday recorded the statement of independent witness Prabhakar Sail for the second time in connection with his allegation of extortion attempt by NCB officials in the drugs seizure case involving Aryan Khan. Sail appeared before the Assistant Commissioner of Police of Azad Maidan division around 3 pm and left around 8.30 pm, an official said.
Mumbai police set up team for inquiry into 'extortion bid' in Aryan case
Mumbai Police has deputed police officers for enquiry into complaints of alleged extortion against NCB officers including zonal director Sameer Wankhede in the drugs bust case involving Aryan Khan, a senior police official said on Wednesday.
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