MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Friday gave a clean chit to Aryan Khan, son of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, in last year’s ‘drugs on cruise’ case in which he was arrested and spent 22 days in jail.
NCB officials said Aryan Khan and five others were not named in the agency’s chargesheet due to “lack of sufficient evidence”.
NCB officials said that the NCB team which arrested Aryan and 19 others in the Mumbai cruise-on-drugs case did a “shoddy” probe and the SIT created to re-investigate the case found “grave irregularities” in their actions like not conducting a mandatory medical test of the accused, no video recording of the raids or no corroborative evidence against WhatsApp chats.
He said it was a case of “underwhelming evidence” as compared to the golden principle of gathering “overwhelming evidence” against the accused.
The NCB also said in a statement it applied “the touchstone of the principle of proof beyond reasonable doubt” while re-probing this case.
SIT sleuths found the NCB team did many “grave irregularities” and were allegedly just trying to “implicate” Aryan in this case.
The NCB on Friday filed a nearly 6,000-page chargesheet before a Mumbai court against 14 accused in this case of 2021 even as it did not charge six, including Aryan, due to “lack of sufficient evidence.”
This story is from the May 28, 2022 edition of Millennium Post Delhi.
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