Aryan Khan was never in possession of drugs, not part of conspiracy: NCB SIT

Aryan Khan was reportedly said to not be part of any larger drugs conspiracy or an international drugs trafficking syndicate. As per the latest reports, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) is said to have found that there were several irregularities in the raid which was conducted on the yacht Cordelia.

As per a report by HT, some of the key findings of SIT shared by the officials, “Aryan Khan was never in possession of drugs hence there was no need to take his phone and check his chats; the chats do not suggest Khan was part of any international syndicate; the raid was not video-recorded as mandated by the NCB manual; and the drugs recovered from multiple accused arrested in the case shown as single recovery.”

The officer further said, “To be sure, the SIT probe is not complete and it could be a couple of months before it submits its final report to NCB Director General S N Pradhan. A legal opinion will be taken before the final decision, particularly on the aspect whether Khan can be charged for consumption even though he was not carrying any drugs.”

The SIT probe has only made the raid has a whole come under the microscope along with the agency’s former Mumbai Zonal Unit director Sameer Wankhede. He had led a team of officers along with some witnesses on October 2, 2021, last year as they raided the Cordelia cruise ship at the International Cruise Terminal at Green Gate in Mumbai. NCB had seized a total of 13 grams of cocaine, five grams of mephedrone, 21 grams of marijuana, 22 pills of MDMA (Ecstasy), and ₹1.33 lakh in cash from the cruise.

 

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Further, the report stated the SIT’s review of the Cordelia probe also said that Khan had not asked his friend Arbaaz Merchant to bring drugs on the cruise.

Aryan Khan was arrested by the NCB after he was caught in the raid of the Cordelia cruise ship drugs case. He had spent almost a month in jail before he was granted bail by the Bombay High Court.

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