Aryan Khan did not have cash to buy drugs, his lawyer tells Mumbai court in bail plea hearing

The counsel for Actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan, who has been detained in a drugs case, told a Mumbai court on Wednesday that no such contraband was seized from his client and that he did not have any cash on him during the Narcotics Control Bureau raid aboard a ship, reported Bar and Bench.

“The 13 gms of cocaine are not from Khan and neither are the ecstasy pills, [or] mephedrone,” Amit Desai told the court. “Nothing is from him. He did not have cash. He did not have plans to consume or sell drugs.”

The court was hearing the bail petition of all the accused in the case.

Khan and seven others had been detained by the Narcotics Control Bureau on October 3 after a raid during a party on a cruise ship off the coast of Mumbai. But Khan’s lawyers have argued that no drugs were found in his possession.

The anti-drugs agency had said that it seized 13 grams of cocaine, 5 grams of mephedrone, 21 grams of charas, 22 pills of MDMA (ecstasy) and Rs 1,33,000 from the cruise ship.

Khan was initially remanded to the custody of the anti-drugs agency but was sent to judicial custody for 14 days on Thursday, October 7. The next day,…

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