Aryan Khan promises to help the poor after bail

As Aryan Khan spends time behind bars waiting for bail the Narcotics Control Bureau has used its soft skills to counsel him on the ill effects of drugs on the social fabric A senior NCB officer told midday that the son of actor Shahrukh Khan has promised them that he would be taking the responsibility to uplift the downtrodden people including cancer patients from Bandra and nearby areasThe young Khan was arrested on October 3 after the antidrugs agency busted a rave party aboard a cruise liner heading for Goa An officer said all others arrested in the case have also been counselled at NCBrsquos Mumbai office in the presence of top officers ldquoWe have been taking a lot of efforts to eradicate drugs from the society and have arrested many people in consumption cases hellip but what we noticed is that people have not quit consuming drugs despite knowing the fact that they can be rearrested by the agencyrdquo said a senior NCB officerAn agency source said they focus beyond seizures and arrests through counselling sessions NCB has reeled in religious leaders for these efforts led by its Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede who has carried out multiple raids in and around Mumbai in past months The top officer himself steps in to enlighten drugdependent youth with the ill effects of substance abuse said a source ldquoWe have roped in religious leaders from ISKON temple and Ulemas who visit our office to help the accused arrested in drug consumption cases quit drugsrdquo said the sourceSources said NCBrsquos Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede himself tries to convince arrested youth to stay off drugs PicShadab KhanAnother source said ldquoIt was much required as we have arrested not less than 300 youth for consumption but they were not quitting drugs after getting bail So if the youth is religious we have started to give them spiritual and holy books to study during our custody and if they are not much inclined towards their religions our zonal director himself takes a session and convinces them to take some social responsibilities like helping poor people orphans beggars street dwellers and others to uplift them to feed themrdquoldquoAryan Khan belongs to a highprofile family So he has been asked to help cancer patients adopt some families to take care of their wellbeing help them with food etc so that he can know the world beyond rave partiesrdquo said an NCB officer Officials have bought holy books including the Bible Quran Shareef in Hindi and Arabic and a copy of Bhagavad Gita ldquoThese books are read by those who have been arrested in a drug consumption casehellip besides strictly reading the holy books these youth have been asked to do shram daan like keeping their premises neat and clean These are the parts of the deaddiction sessionrdquo said the officerldquoBesides Khan the others arrested in the cruise drug bust case have been strictly asked to read the religious books or do shram daan and help the destitute instead of deteriorating their health and wasting money on drugsrdquo said the officerTold to send proof of workWankhede has also asked Khan and others to send him their pictures of helping poor families ldquoOnce they are released on bail they have been given instructions to help needy people with their basic requirements for at least 6 months and send him Wankhede their pictures to showcase the good work they are doingrdquo said the sourceldquoAryan Khan has agreed that once he is released on bail he would visit the slum pockets in Bandra and nearby areas to help the needy He has promised Wankhede that he would contribute to nationbuilding by helping the poor and make his parents proudrdquo said the source adding ldquoHe has told Wankhede that I was not aware that I can make everyone feel proud by doing a national servicerdquoRippon Sadh from the ISKON temple at Juhu said the NCB has sought his help in helping youth held in consumption cases quit dependence on narcotic substances ldquoWe have been doing kirtans and we deliver religious speeches to dissuade youth from consuming drugs We have been visiting the NCB office in Mumbai to take the deaddiction sessions We have been distributing knowledge and helping peoplerdquo Sadh told middayThe chairman of Jama Masjid of Bombay Trust Shuaib Khatib said ldquoThe NCB officer Sameer Wankhede contacted us to help them in their deaddiction programme so that the youth who got deviated from the original path to consume drugs can fall in linerdquoldquoConsumption of all sorts of narcotic substance and alcohol is haram in Islamhellip so our religious leaders have been meeting the Muslim youth arrested by NCB to help them live a disciplined liferdquo Khatib told midday