An Indian court on Wednesday rejected a request for the son of Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan to be released on bail 18 days after he was arrested for drug abuse during a party.
Shah Rukh Khan’s 23-year-old son, Aryan Khan, was arrested from a cruise ship en route from Mumbai to Goa state on October 2.
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The Drug Enforcement Bureau charged him under laws “related to the possession, consumption and sale of prohibited substances,” but he denied the charges.
His lawyer, Satish Mancindi, told the court that no drugs were found in the actor’s son’s possession and that there was no evidence that he had abused drugs.
But the court, for the second time, rejected a request to release him on bail, and had earlier refused to release him on bail on October 8, and the court also rejected requests to release other defendants in the case on bail.
Aryan Khan’s lawyers are expected to appeal the Mumbai High Court’s decision
Prosecutors said, in an earlier hearing, that it was necessary to take a “serious view” on drug use among young people, adding that Aryan Khan should not be treated differently from the 17 other defendants in the case and therefore should not be released on bail.
DEA officials had raided a cruise ship on October 2, and said they had received a report that there were drugs on board, and Aryan Khan was searched and interrogated before boarding the ship, and eventually was detained by the DEA.
He was arrested the next day, initially in the custody of the Drug Enforcement Bureau before he was later transferred to prison
It is reported that Shah Rukh Khan has not yet issued any statement or statement
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