Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan being questioned by NCB in Mumbai cruise drugs case

Aryan Khan (Image: Instagram/___aryan___)

The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has detained Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan and seven others for questioning after it raided Cordelia Cruises' Empress ship and busted a drugs party, NCB officials said on October 3.

Apart from Aryan Khan, the others were identified as Munmun Dhamecha, Nupur Sarika, Ismeet Singh, Mohak Jaswal, Vikrant Chhoker, Gomit Chopra and Arbaaz Merchan, said Sameer Wankhede, Zonal Director of NCB.

Aryan Khan is being questioned by the NCB but he has not been booked on any charges and arrested so far, according to media reports.

Shah Rukh Khan has not issued a statement on the issue yet.

"It’s a result of a painstaking investigation that went on for two weeks. We acted on specific intelligence inputs, involvement of some Bollywood links has come to light," NCB chief SN Pradhan told CNN-News18.

On the basis of the information received from the detainees, further raids will be conducted, Pradhan told news agency ANI.

Eight people have been detained for questioning (in connection with the seizure of drugs from a party at a cruise off Mumbai coast). On the basis of the information that we would receive from them, further raids will be conducted: NCB chief SN Pradhan to ANI pic.twitter.com/wnnCgrMhVK

— ANI (@ANI) October 3, 2021

“We are acting in an impartial manner. In the process, if some connections to Bollywood or rich people emerge, so be it. We have to act within the purview of the law,” Pradhan added.

On the basis of the information extracted from the persons detained after the October 2 raid in the cruise ship, NCB is conducting raids in the Belapur area of Navi Mumbai, reported news agency ANI.

The NCB team led by Sameer Wankhede boarded the Cordelia cruise following a tip-off on October 2, an official told PTI. There were hundreds of passengers on the ship which was bound for Goa, he said.

"During the operation, the suspects were searched and different drugs were recovered from them, which they had hidden in their clothes, undergarments and purses (by women). The detained persons will be produced in a court later in the day after the legal formalities get over," the NCB official said.

Different drugs like MDMA, ecstasy, cocaine, MD (mephedrone) and charas were recovered from them during the raid conducted last evening, said the report.

Asked about the NCB raid at the cruise ship, Bollywood actor Sunil Shetty said, "When a raid is conducted at a place, many people are taken into custody. We assume that a particular boy must have consumed it (drugs). The process is on. Let's give that child a breather. Let real reports come out".

#WATCH | When a raid is conducted at a place, many people are taken into custody. We assume that a particular boy must have consumed it (drugs). The process is on. Let's give that child a breather. Let real reports come out: Actor Sunil Shetty on NCB raid at an alleged rave party pic.twitter.com/qYaYSsxkyi

— ANI (@ANI) October 3, 2021

Earlier on September 30, the NCB arrested a city-based hotelier in connection with a drug case linked with the brother of Bollywood actor Arjun Rampal's partner. The NCB arrested Khar-based hotelier Kunal Jani in a drugs case in which South African national Agisilaos Demitriades, the brother of Rampal's partner Gabriella Demetriades, was arrested in October 2020, the official said. The investigations in the case have revealed that Jani had links with Demitriades and was allegedly involved in supplying cocaine, he said.