Drugs on Cruise case: Mumbai court rejects Aryan Khan's bail plea

Mumbai: A special Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act court on Wednesday rejected bail plea of Aryan Khan, son of Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan. He was arrested by Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on October 02.

His last bail plea hearing took place on October 14 wherein the order was reserved. 

A team of NCB officials acted on a specific tip off and searched some passengers slated to take Cordellia cruise to Goa from the International Cruise Terminal at Green Gate in Mumbai. 

The agency claimed to have seized multiple drugs such as 13 grams of Cocaine, 5 grams of Mephedrone, 21 grams of Charas, and 22 pills of MDMA (ecstasy) and ₹1.33 lakh in cash from the cruise.  

Aryan had recently spoken to his parents – Shahrukh and Gauri Khan – through a video call from inside the prison and also received ₹4,500 through money-order.

Along with star kid, a total of 20 people, including two Nigerian nationals, have been arrested so far in the case related to the seizure of drugs following the raid at a party on the cruise ship off the Mumbai coast.