Aryan Khan moves Bombay High Court for bail, hearing tomorrow

Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan, whose bail plea was rejected today, has now approached the Bombay High Court for bail. Khan's advocates Satish Maneshinde and Senior Counsel Amit Desai mentioned the bail plea before Justice Nitin W. Sambre whose mentioning will likely take place tomorrow.

Special NDPS Judge VV Patil also declined the bail applications of Arbaaz Merchantt and Munmun Dhamecha, the two others accused in the drug case lodged by Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB). "Bail applications 2571/21, 2576/21, and 2583/21 stand rejected. Accordingly, bail applications are disposed off," Patil said this afternoon, though a detailed order is awaited.

Shortly thereafter, Aryan Khan's lawyers, senior advocate Amit Desai and Satish Maneshinde rushed to the Bombay High Court to mention the matter before Justice NW Sambre, but the court hours had ended, and now, the matter is likely to come up on Thursday. Nationalist Congress Party national spokesperson and Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik and Shiv Sena leader Kishore Tiwari have again flayed the NCB and claimed the case will not stand the scrutiny of the higher courts. Aryan Khan, Merchantt, and Dhamecha, along with five others were detained on October 2 by the NCB.

Initially, Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate RM Nerlikar had sent them to a day's custody which was later extended till October 7, and later sent to judicial custody for 14 days, and transferred the case to the Special NDPS court. Later, their lawyers moved the special court for bail which was rejected after several days of hearing in which the NCB's counsel, Additional Solicitor General Anil Singh vehemently opposed bail for the accused.

Among other things, the NDPS accused Aryan Khan of being a regular consumer of drugs, dealing in narcotics, and the case having international links, etc as evident from his WhatsApp chats.