India : The Bombay High Court adjourned the bail hearing of Aryan Khan, in connection with the alleged seizure of drugs on a cruise ship till Thursday after Advocate Ali Kaashif Khan Deshmukh and senior counsel Amit Desai concluded their arguments on Wednesday.
Desai, appearing for Arbaaz, stated that there was no grounds for conspiracy, as alleged by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB). “If there are three unconnected persons coming for the same purpose, that is not conspiracy,” he told the single-judge Bench of Justice Nitin W Sambre. He reiterated the arguments made in the case of Aryan, that the WhatsApp chats were unrelated to the Mumbai cruise. On Tuesday, he had argued that the WhatsApp chats between Aryan and a friend over online poker were being “misinterpreted” by the NCB as about drugs.
Senior advocate and former attorney general of India Mukul Rohatgi, appearing on behalf of Aryan, had concluded his arguments on Tuesday. Rohatgi called his arrest “arbitrary”, adding that the NCB had made no recovery from the 23-year-old, nor conducted a medical examination to show consumption of any narcotic.
Aryan has been in custody since October 2, when he was detained ahead of an alleged rave party on a cruise ship.
