The denial of bail to Aryan Khan, the son of Hindi film superstar Shah Rukh Khan, in a drugs case twice this month has been the subject of ...
The denial of bail to Aryan Khan, the son of Hindi film superstar Shah Rukh Khan, in a drugs case twice this month has been the subject of much discussion. On Wednesday, a special court that hears narcotics cases rejected Aryan Khan’s bail application, as a Magistrate’s Court had on October 8.
Aryan Khan was arrested and seven others had been arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau on October 3 after a raid on a cruise ship off Mumbai. So far, 20 people have been arrested in the case.
No drugs were recovered from 23-year-old Khan but investigators alleged that he is part of a larger conspiracy to procure drugs from an international network. The judge said that Khan’s WhatsApp chats showed that he was involved in “illicit drug activities for narcotic substances on [a] regular basis”.
The pattern in this case is similar to that of Rhea Chakraborty, the actress who was arrested in September 2020 for allegedly procuring drugs for her boyfriend, actor Sushant Singh Rajput. In both cases, accused people with film-industry connections were repeatedly denied bail, even as the investigators relied heavily on WhatsApp chats from the phones of the arrested people to make their case and claimed that they were part of a broader conspiracy....
