Concluding his arguments for co-accused Arbaaz Merchant, senior counsel Amit Desai, Wednesday called the arrest of the three (Aryan Khan, Arbaaz and Munmun Dhamecha), “illegal.” He stated that there was no grounds for conspiracy, as alleged by the NCB.
“If there are three unconnected persons coming for the identical purpose, that's not conspiracy,” he said. Advocate Ali Kashif Khan is presently making arguments for the bail plea of co-accused Mummun Dhamecha.
The Bombay state supreme court is hearing the bail plea of Aryan Khan, the son of Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan, in reference to the alleged seizure of medicine on a cruise liner. Senior advocate and former attorney general of India Mukul Rohatgi, appearing on behalf of Aryan, had concluded his arguments yesterday. Rohatgi called his arrest “arbitrary”, because the court began its bail hearing on Tuesday.
Rohatgi told the single-judge Bench of Justice Nitin W Sambre that the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) had made no recovery from the 23-year-old, nor conducted a medical to indicate consumption of any narcotic. Senior advocate Amit Desai, also appearing for Aryan, said that WhatsApp chats between him and a fan over online poker were being “misinterpreted” by the NCB as about drugs www.multimediastudio.net