Mumbai: All the hype and hoopla over the medication case in opposition to Aryan Khan has come to nothing. Almost eight months after the registration of the case, during which the 24-year-old star child spent 26 days in custody, the narcotics management bureau has given him and 5 different accused individuals a clear chit.

The particular investigation workforce of the NCB on Friday filed a 6,000-page cost sheet naming 14 accused. The company stated that the names of six individuals, who had been made accused by the sooner investigating workforce, together with Aryan, Avin Sahu, Gopal Anand, Samir Sehgal, Bhaskar Arora and Manav Singhal have been dropped from the cost sheet for the “lack of sufficient evidence”.

In an announcement, deputy director common Sanjay Kumar Singh of the NCB stated, “SIT carried out an investigation in an objective manner. The touchstone of the principle of proof beyond reasonable doubt has been applied. Based on the investigation carried out by SIT, a complaint against 14 persons under various sections of NDPS Act is being filed. Complaint against rest six persons is not being filed due to lack of sufficient evidence.”

Among the 5 others exonerated within the case, Sahu was a visitor of the cruise ship and the remaining 4 individuals had been the organisers of the occasion.

The cost sheet has been filed in opposition to Aryan’s buddy Arbaaz Merchant (26), Munmun Dhamecha (28), Vikrant Chhokar (33), Mohak Jaiswal (28), Ishmeet Singh Chadha (33), Gomit Chopra (28), Nupur Satija (29), Abdul Kadar Shaikh (30), Shreyas Nair (23), Manish Rajgariya (30), Aachit Kumar (22), Chinedu Igwe (27), Shivraj Harijan (33) and Okoro Uzeoma (40).

An NCB workforce headed by then NCB zonal director Sameer Wankhede raided the Cordelia Cruise Ship docked at Mumbai cruise terminal and claimed to have busted a drug occasion. The workforce arrested a number of individuals together with Aryan from the ship. Though the investigators didn’t get better any medication from Aryan’s place, they allegedly recovered six grams of charas from Merchant and 5 grams of cannabis from Dhamecha.

Aryan was granted bail by the Bombay excessive court docket on October 28 final 12 months. In its order, the HC held that prima facie there was no proof to deduce that Aryan and his buddy Arbaaz Merchant conspired to commit offences below the NDPS Act.

Following a number of controversies courted by Mr Wankhede’s fashion of perform and private allegations in opposition to him, the investigation was handed over to an SIT from NCB (New Delhi), headed by Sanjay Kumar Singh on November 6, 2021.

Welcoming the NCB’s admission that there wasn’t adequate proof in opposition to Aryan and no medication had been recovered from him, his lawyer Satish Maneshinde stated, “The arrest and detention of Aryan Khan for 26 days was unjustified more particularly when he was not found in possession of any drugs, there was no evidence of any kind, there was no material of any nature of the violation of any law much less the NDPS Act. We are happy that the Special Investigation Team under Sanjay Kumar Singh investigated the case in an objective manner and decided not to file a complaint against Aryan Khan for lack of sufficient evidence. God is great. Satya Meva Jayate.”

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