On Wednesday Mumbai court permitted the release of Aryan Khan’s passport. His passport was in the custody of the court as part of the bail condition in the cruise-drugs case. According to a Bar and Bench tweet, the court has likewise allowed for the bail bond to be canceled. Aryan Khan can now go to travel outside the country.
Recently, Aryan had filed a plea before a special NDPS court requesting for the return of his passport. He was given a clean chit in May by the NCB in last year’s cruise-drugs case. Aryan was granted bail by the Bombay High Court in October 2021 and his passport was seized by the NCB during the probe.
The NCB had filed a 6,000-page chargesheet against 14 accused in the case on May 27 which excluded Aryan’s name. “Aryan Khan was not named in the chargesheet and his arrest along with imprisonment for 26 days was wrong, especially when no drugs of any kind were found from him. There was no evidence of any kind, there was no material of any nature in violation of any law, except the NDPS Act. We are glad that Sanjay Kumar Singh, heading the NCB SIT, investigated the matter properly and decided not to file a complaint against Aryan Khan due to lack of sufficient evidence,” Aryan lawyer, Satish Maneshinde had said.
As of late, NCB deputy director (operations) Sanjay Singh, who headed the Special Investigations Team (SIT) formed to investigate the case, uncovered what Aryan said during the investigation. He told India Today, that Aryan told him, “Sir, you have painted me as an international drug trafficker, that I finance drug trafficking–aren’t these charges absurd? They did not find any drugs on my person that day and yet they arrested me. Sir, you have done me great wrong and ruined my reputation. Why did I have to spend so many weeks in jail–did I really deserve it?”
