Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan and other accused have tested negative for Covid-19 and have been declared medically fit. Sameer Wankhede, Zonal Director, NCB, had requested the court to keep the accused at the probe agency’s office in Mumbai as jail doesn’t admit prisoners without coronavirus test report. The bail plea of Aryan Khan and seven others arrested in the Mumbai drugs bust case coincidentally comes on the birthday of his mother Gauri Khan. A magistrate court is likely to hear the plea around 12:30 pm.
The case pertains to alleged seizure of banned drugs aboard a cruise ship in Mumbai. The court had a day ago granted 14-day judicial custody to SRK’s son, his friend Arbaaz A Merchant, model Munmun Dhamecha and five others. The Nationalist Congress Party, had been training the gun on NCB official Sameer Wankhede over the raids. Nawab Malik is set to hold a press conference around 12 pm today after “collecting more data and information to expose the wrongdoings of the NCB”. He had earlier released videos showing Kiran P Gosavi and Manish Bhanushali entering and leaving the NCB office the same night the cruise ship was raided.
Kiran P Gosavi was the man who apparently took a selfie with Aryan Khan that went viral, while Bhanushali, who was seen with Aryan Khan’s friend Arbaaz Merchant, is a BJP leader, claimed Nawab Malik. The NCB had to issue a statement that the man in the viral photo is not linked with the agency. Both of them have apparently been NCB’s informer to this particular case. Bhanushali, later accepted that he had given information to NCB regarding the party. NCP supremo Sharad Pawar questioned the role of the “witnesses”. “What is their role? To see what has happened? But then they don’t have the right to nab the accused,” he said. However, the leader added that drug networks should be busted, and wrong precedence shouldn’t be set.
