Cruise ship raid case: Court reserves order on Aryan Khan’s bail plea for October 20

Thursday witnessed heated exchanges in court as NCB tried to weave web of conspiracy based on WhatsApp messages, which the defence said are not enough to prove culpability

Aryan Khan is escorted out of the NCB office. File pic

Aryan Khan will spend a few more days at the Arthur Road Jail, as the special NDPS court reserved its order on his bail application on Thursday. It is likely to pronounce the judgment on October 20. In heated arguments in court, the NCB claimed that going by his WhatsApp chats, Aryan “has been into it [drugs] since the past few years”. Aryan’s counsel argued that language in the chats could mean something else.

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