The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Wednesday (October 13) presented the copies of their reply to the lawyers concerned on bail applications of Aryan Khan, Arbaaz Merchantt, Munmun Dhamecha, Achit Kumar, Shivraj Harijan and others involved in the drug seizure case on a cruise ship off the Mumbai coast. In their reply, the NCB has opposed bail for each accused and specified their reason for the same. 

The key points from NCB’s reply 

1) Aryan Khan used to procure drugs from Arbaaz Merchantt and people connected to Arbaaz. Six gm of charas was removed from Arbaaz from his shoes during the raid by NCB. 

2) According to the evidence available so far during the investigation, Aryan Khan has a role to play in the illicit prominent and distribution of contraband. 

3) Accused number 17 Achit Kumar and accused number 19 Shivraj Harijan provided drugs to Aryan and Arbaaz.

4) Aryan and Arbaaz used to spend time together, were close to each other and this is enough to invoke section 29 of NDPS (Criminal Conspiracy to commit an offence). 

5) According to the investigation, Aryan and Arbaaz went together to the Cruise party from this it is clear that both of them went on the cruise with common intent.

6) Even though no or very less drug may have been recovered from some of the accused but their involvement in the conspiracy of the crime forms the basis of investigation.

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Narcotics Control Bureau officials have so far arrested 20 accused in this case, while continuous interrogation of 5 suspects is going on, including filmmaker and builder Imtiaz Khatri. Aryan Khan was arrested on October 3. He is currently in judicial custody and lodged at the Arthur Road prison in Mumbai. He approached the special court for bail after his plea for the same was rejected by a magistrate’s court last week on the ground that it did not have the jurisdiction to decide the matter.

Also read: Mumbai Drug Bust Timeline: What happened before and after Aryan Khan’s arrest