After a Day of Hearing, Bombay HC Adjourns Aryan Khan’s Bail Case Till Tomorrow

Mukul Rohatgi argued before the Bombay high court on Tuesday that no case was made out against Aryan – no drugs were recovered from his possession and no medical test has proved that he consumed drugs.

New Delhi: The Bombay high court on Tuesday evening adjourned the Aryan Khan bail case hearing till tomorrow. Senior advocate and former attorney general of India Mukul Rohatgi was appearing for Aryan, Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s son who has been arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau.

The NCB on Tuesday opposed Aryan’s bail plea, alleging the 23-year-old was not just a consumer of drugs, but also involved in illicit drug trafficking. The agency also claimed that Aryan Khan and a woman named Pooja Dadlani, Shah Rukh Khan’s manager, were tampering with the evidence and witnesses in the case in an attempt to derail the investigation.

Rohatgi argued before the Bombay high court on Tuesday that no case was made out against Aryan – no drugs were recovered from his possession and no medical test has proved that he consumed drugs. “There was no occasion to arrest my client (Aryan Khan),” Rohatgi said, according to the Indian Express.

He also said that Aryan could not be held responsible for the drugs recovered from Arbaaz Merchant’s shoes. “It was not in my control, what was found in Merchant’s shoe. Arbaaz is not my servant, he is not under my control, so there is no conspiracy,” Rohatgi submitted on Aryan’s behalf.

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“There is no consumption, there is no possession. What is put against me is that I came with Merchant, so I had ‘conscious possession’. It is far fetched. They say it was known to me and I had control. My case is that it is not conscious possession at all. What somebody had in their shoe or wherever is not my concern,” Rohatgi continued, according to Bar and Bench.

Aryan’s advocates submitted to the high court an additional note, stating that he has nothing to do with the allegations and counter allegations that are being circulated between the NCB’s zonal director Sameer Wankhede and certain political personalities.

The NCB on Tuesday filed its affidavit in response to the bail plea filed by Aryan Khan in the high court.

Aryan was taken into custody on October 2 after a raid on a cruise party that he was attending. He was placed under arrest on October 3 and charged with offences under Section 8(c), 20(b), 27, 28, 29 and 35 under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.

Both the magistrate and sessions court have so far rejected his bail plea.

(With PTI inputs)