No evidence has been found that Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan was part of a larger drug conspiracy or an international drug smuggling syndicate. An official of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) investigation team SIT gave this information to Hindustan Times on condition of anonymity. After this report, now Aryan Khan is finally seen getting a clean chit in the Mumbai cruise drugs case.
SIT (Special Investigative Team) has shared some findings of its investigation with the newspaper which states that Aryan Khan was not in possession of any drugs. An official said that Aryan Khan’s chat does not suggest that he was part of any international syndicate, besides irregularities were committed during the raid on the cruise.
The officer said that drugs were never found in Aryan Khan’s possession, so there was no need to take his phone and check his chats. It is not known from the chat that Khan was part of any international syndicate.
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The investigation team said that the raids were not video-recorded as mandated by the NCB manual and the narcotics recovered from several accused arrested in the case were shown as single seizures.
However, the SIT probe is yet to be completed and NCB Director General SN Pradhan may take a few months to submit his final report. An official said a legal opinion would be taken before a final decision, particularly on the aspect whether Khan can be charged for consumption even though he is not taking any drugs.
The SIT probe seems to raise further questions on the conduct of the raids and the conduct of Sameer Wankhede, former director of the agency’s Mumbai zonal unit. Wankhede has been sent back to his parent cadre and he has been questioned several times by both the SIT and the agency’s vigilance team to ascertain the truth in the case.
Wankhede led a team of officers and some witnesses to raid a cruise ship Cordelia at the International Cruise Terminal at Mumbai’s Green Gate on the night of October 2 last year. The NCB had seized 13 grams of cocaine, five grams of mephedrone, 21 grams of marijuana, 22 pills of MDMA (Ecstasy) and Rs 1.33 lakh in cash from the cruise ship.
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