NCB arrested SRK son Aryan, 7 other youths for drug use

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Mumbai:  Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan was arrested on Sunday on charges of consumption, sale and purchase of narcotic drugs. NCB officials raided a rave party on Saturday busted aboard a luxury cruise liner. The arrest was made in connection with the seizure of 13 Gms cocaine, 5 Gms MD, 21 gms charas, and 22 pills of MDMA, totally worth Rs 1, 33, 000 from him.

According to the NCB sources Aryan and seven other youths were taken into custody and subsequently, formally arrested. Aryan and two others Munmun Dhamecha and Arbaaz Merchant were arrested and the trio was produced before the Esplanade Magistrate Court amid tight security late on Sunday. The accused was sent to the NCB’s custody for one day till Monday.

Charged under various sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, they will be produced again before the court on Monday for their judicial custody. The others who remained under the NCB’s detention Nupur Satija, Ishmeet Singh Chadha, Mohak Jaiswal, Vikrant Chhokar and Gomit Chopra were subsequently arrested.

NCB Superintendent V.V. Singh, in his arrest memo said that Aryan Khan was being arrested under the NDPS Act for his involvement in the consumption, sale and purchase of contraband (drugs) along with other known and unknown persons.

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