Mumbai : Aryan Khan and all other accused in the drugs-on-cruise case are connected and their roles cannot be separated. The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in their reply to a court said that they will decide on the bail request of Shah Rukh Khan’s son.
According to sources, the Anti Drugs Agency states that Aryan Khan is in contact with some people who are a part of international drug network. “Aryan Khan – Accused No. 1 for the NCB – sourced drugs and was in touch with some persons abroad who appear to be a part of an International Drug Network for illicit procurement of drugs”, the anti-drugs agency has said in the statement that has yet to be submitted in court.
NCB said “All those arrested are inextricably connected with each other and it is not possible to dissect the role, involvement of one accused from that of the other”.
“The ingredients of conspiracy are clear and evident,” says its reply to the court, adding that “one of the applicants cannot be considered in isolation”.
Aryan Khan was found clean, no drugs were found on him when the anti-drugs agency’s officers raided a Mumbai cruise ship party on October 3. But the NCB says that this does not erodes his role.
“Even though from some accused persons there is no recovery or recovery of small quantity of contraband, the participation by acts and omissions of such persons who have acted in concert, conspiracy in the commission of offences forms the basis of this investigation,” said the statement.
The situation was such that “the quantum of recovery from an individual accused becomes inconsequential”.
Aryan Khan, 23, was arrested along with his friend Arbaaz Merchant and six others after the ship drugs raid.
His lawyers, while seeking bail, have repeatedly stressed that no drugs were found on him, but the agency says it has evidence that he used to source them.
The NCB says, “Accused no 1 has a role in so far as illicit procurement and distribution of contraband is concerned… It is prima facie revealed that Aryan Khan used to procure contraband from Accused no 2 (Arbaaz). And sourced connected to Accused no 2 from whose conscious possession (shoes) 6 grams of charas was recovered. Aryan and Arbaaz have been associated in close collaboration.”
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