A unique courtroom right here Monday directed the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) to file its reply on October 13 to a bail plea filed through Aryan Khan, son of Bollywood celeb Shah Rukh Khan, arrested in reference to the seizure of banned drugs on board a cruise ship off the Mumbai coast.
Special Judge V V Patil, listening to matters associated with the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, said it might hear the bail plea on Wednesday (October 13).
Aryan Khan became arrested on October three. He is presently in judicial custody and lodged on the Arthur Road jail in Mumbai.
He approached the unique court for bail after his plea for the equal turned into rejected by means of a Justice of the Peace's courtroom remaining week at the floor that it did not have the jurisdiction to determine the matter.
On Monday, while Aryan Khan's counsel Amit Desai cited the bail plea, NCB's advocates A M Chimalkar and Advait Sethna sought per week's time to respond and file their affidavit.
They said the research inside the case become nonetheless on and there has been pretty a whole lot of cloth gathered with the aid of the business enterprise and at this stage, it desires to be visible if liberating Aryan Khan on bail could impede the probe into the case.
Desai, but, objected to it, pronouncing a person's liberty is at question right here, and argued that releasing the accused on bail could not forestall the investigation inside the case.
"The bail will not prevent the investigation. The NCB can continue their probe. That is their duty. But, preserving my purchaser (Aryan Khan) in custody, particularly while there has been no recovery (of medicine) from him, isn't always required," Desai said.
"He (Aryan) has no longer been found in possession of any narcotics and there's no different fabric in opposition to him. Since his arrest, he has been within the custody of the NCB for a week and his assertion became recorded twice. Why does he still need to be in prison?" the senior counsel argued.
Chimalkar, however, stated that the organisation wishes at the least some days time to record its reply.
"What Desai is arguing appears to be rosy, but this isn't always what the research famous or divulges. Aryan Khan is in judicial custody. Whether his release on bail will have an effect on or impede our research desires to be visible," Chimalkar stated.
Sethna, acting for NCB, advised the court docket that there has been no extreme urgency for the bail plea to be heard right now.
Desai then sought the courtroom to hear and determine Aryan Khan's plea one by one, saying the recuperation of medicine from each accused within the case become extraordinary.
But, Chimalkar and Sethna adversarial it and said the conspiracy is the identical.
Apart from Aryan Khan, four other accused in the case - Arbaaz Merchant, Munmun Dhamecha, Nupur Sateja, and Mohak Jaiswal - have also filed bail pleas inside the unique court.
The courtroom stated it'd begin hearing Aryan Khan's bail plea on Wednesday.
Aryan Khan has been charged with offences below Sections 8(c), 20(b), 27, 28, 29 and 35 of the NDPS Act pertaining to possession, consumption and purchase of medication.
The NCB has thus far arrested 20 humans inside the case.
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