Superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s son, Aryan Khan was granted bail by the Bombay High Court on Thursday that came as a big relief after he had to spend three weeks in jail. Aryan was arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) after a raid at a cruise ship along with 19 others in an alleged drugs case.
The former Attorney General of India, Mukul Rohatgi argued Aryan’s bail plea. He was accompanied by senior advocates Amit Desai and Satish Maneshinde, who were also a part of his legal team. Rohatgi made a forceful plea for Aryan’s bail, which was rejected by a special NDPS court last week.
Here are the arguments that helped the star kid secure bail -Rohtagi said that Aryan was a special invitee on the cruise ship and he and his friend Arbaaz Merchant were caught before they even boarded the ship which was going to Goa. He said that nothing was recovered from the 24-year-old and since there are no medical reports to prove, NCB cannot charge him with consumption.
“There was no occasion to arrest my client, short and simple,” Rohatgi told a single-judge bench of Justice N.W. Sambre.
He contended that Aryan was ‘wrongly arrested’ by the NCB. “My case is that there is no conscious possession at all. What somebody else had in their shoe is not my concern. Possession of somebody else cannot be my possession unless there is control and knowledge,” Mukul Rohatgi was quoted as saying by Live Law.
He also questioned the NCB for charging him with conspiracy and said that the chats recovered by the anti-drugs agency from Aryan’s phone were about poker. They had nothing to do with the cruise party. “Aryan does not know any of the other accused in the case except Arbaaz Merchant. There is absolutely no material to show conspiracy,” Rohatgi argued.
The next day, when the court resumed the hearing on Aryan’s bail plea, advocate Amit Desai completed the arguments by saying, “This is a direct infringement of constitutional guarantees. We are all available to the agencies. Bail may be granted.”
On Thursday, the third day of the hearing, Aryan and the other two accused were finally granted bail by the Bombay HC. Speaking to the media, the former AG said, “They (Aryan and his co-accused in the case Arbaz Merchant and Munmum Dhamecha) will come out of jail after the order is released from the court. For me, it is a regular case — to win some, to lose some. I am happy that he (Khan) has got bail.”
