New Delhi: A Mumbai court on Thursday sent SRK’s son Aryan Khan to judicial custody for 14 days in the drug seizure case from cruise ship. Apart from Aryan Khan, his friend Arbaz Merchant & 6 others have also been remanded to judicial custody for 14 days. #UPDATE | Mumbai court sends Aryan Khan, Arbaz Merchant and 6 others to judicial custody for 14 days in drugs seizure at cruise ship Court says the case will now be heard by special NDPS court https://t.co/8rqko8epsc — ANI (@ANI) October 7, 2021 Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) took Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan to its office in Mumbai after producing him before Esplanade Magistrate court. The accused will be kept in the NCB office in judicial custody till tomorrow because the jail would not accept new inmates at this hour. The court in Mumbai also said it will hear the bail plea of Aryan Khan at 12.30 pm on Friday and asked NCB to file a reply by then. The Court further said that the case will now be heard by special Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) court. Aryan to spend night in jail, bail hearing at 11 AM on Friday Meawhile, Aryan Khan's lawyer applied for bail in the court, but the permission was reportedly denied for the same. Aryan's bail hearing will come up at 11 AM tomorrow, which means he will have to spend night in jail. Earlier, 3 accused including Aryan Khan, Arbaz Seth Merchant, and Munmun Dhamecha were produced before Mumbai's Esplanade Court which remanded them to NCB custody till October 4 and then till October 7. 18 arrests in Mumbai cruise ship raid till now As many as 18 arrests have been made in the cruise ship raid case so far. Total 17 have been produced before the court and 18th person is yet to be produced before the Mumbai court. Achit Kumar, who is the 17th person arrested by the NCB, was today remanded to NCB custody till October 9. His arrest was made after his name was disclosed by Aryan Khan and Arbaz Seth Merchant. An NCB team busted an alleged drugs party on the Cordelia Cruise ship which was on its way to Goa at mid-sea on October 2 night. Eight persons including Aryan Khan, Arbaz Seth Merchant, Munmun Dhamecha, Vikrant Chhoker, Ismeet Singh, Nupur Sarika, Gomit Chopra and Mohak Jaswal were produced before Mumbai's Esplanade Court on Monday which remanded them to NCB custody till October 7. They were arrested on October 3 in connection with the drug seizure on the cruise ship. As per the NCB, eight persons have been booked under Section 8C, 20B, 27 (Punishment for consumption of any narcotic drug or psychotropic substance), 35 (Presumption of culpable mental state) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS Act), 28 and 29. 8C of NDPS Act refers to prohibition to produce, manufacture, possess, sell, purchase, transport, warehouse, use, consume, import inter-State, export inter-State, import into India, export from India or tranship any narcotic drug or psychotropic substance while Section 20B deals with punishment for producing, manufacturing, possessing, selling, purchasing, transportation, imports inter-State, exports inter-State or use of cannabis. Satish Maneshinde, the lawyer arguing in defence 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. He didn't have any seat or cabin there. Secondly, according to the seizure, nothing has been found in his possession. He is arrested only based on chats." NCB has also arrested Abdul Qadir Sheikh, Shreyas Nair, Manish Darya, Avin Sahu among others.
