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NCB seeking Indian foreign ministry’s help to probe Aryan Khan’s alleged ‘foreign contacts’

16 Oct 2021

Aryan Khan poses for a photograph.

Gulf Today Report

Special Advisor to the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Anil C. Singh told media that superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan’s bail plea at this stage is inappropriate as the investigation is going on.

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He also said that NCB is seeking the help of India’s Ministry of External Affairs to investigate Aryan’s chat that indicates he is allegedly part of an international ring.

He also said that since there is a commercial quantity of the drug recovered from other defendants, the fetters on bail requirements would apply under section 37 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS).

The article makes it difficult to grant a bail when it involves commercial quantity.

Singh also denied the allegations of Aryan’s non-possession as he said that since Merchant was found with charas and both admitted to wanting to smoke, it became his "conscious possession''.