Mumbai Court denies bail to Aryan Khan, two others in Cruise Ship Drug Case

Mumbai: A Mumbai court on Friday rejected bail pleas of megastar Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan and two others who were among the 8 arrested accused in the raid on an alleged rave party on a luxury cruise ship.

Upholding the contentions of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) legal team, Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate R.M. Nerlikar observed that the bail applications of Aryan, Arbaaz Merchant, and Munmun Dhamecha are not maintainable, and are hence rejected.

The developments came a day after all the eight accused were sent to judicial custody, and they shifted to the regular prisons from the NCB lockup.

Shortly after the verdict, the lawyers of the accused youngsters told the media that they will prepare the papers and move the Sessions Court at the earliest opportunity, while the NCB has indicated that it would oppose their bail pleas.

Yesterday, the Judge had rejected further NCB Custody for the accused and remanded them to judicial custody instead.

Advocate Satish Maneshinde appearing for Aryan Khan today argued that there has been no recovery from Khan and that the rigours of bail under Section 37 of the NDPS Act will not apply to him, reports LIve Law

The two women accused - Munmun Dhamecha and Nupur Sarika - were shunted to the Byculla Women's Jail, and the others - Aryan, Arbaaz Merchant, Vikrant Chhoker, Ismeet Singh, Mohak Jaswal, and Gomit Chopra were sent to the ARCJ. According to various new reports, they will remain there till they are released on bail.

Earlier, for the past one week since their detention and subsequent arrest, they were kept in the NCB lockup in south Mumbai.

In the high-drama rave party raid on October 2, the NCB had stated that it recovered drugs like 13 grams cocaine, 21 gms charas, 5 gms MD, and 22 MDMA pills in the operation from the accused, most of whom are linked to the glamour and entertainment industry.