A Special NDPS Court in Mumbai will hear the bail applications of Aryan Khan, Arbaaz Merchant and Munmun Dhamecha in the cruise ship drugs case. They were arrested on October 3 and are currently lodged in Arthur Road Prison. On October 7, a Mumbai Magistrate had rejected further NCB custody of the accused and had remanded them to judicial custody.Yesterday, the lawyers for the accused...
A Special NDPS Court in Mumbai will hear the bail applications of Aryan Khan, Arbaaz Merchant and Munmun Dhamecha in the cruise ship drugs case.
They were arrested on October 3 and are currently lodged in Arthur Road Prison. On October 7, a Mumbai Magistrate had rejected further NCB custody of the accused and had remanded them to judicial custody.
Yesterday, the lawyers for the accused had completed their arguments(report about yesterday's hearing may be read here). Live Updates posted from yesterday's hearing available here.
Additional Solicitor General Anil Singh will make reply arguments on behalf of the Narcotics Control Bureau(NCB) today.
Stay on this page for live-updates of the hearing, expected to commence post 12 noon.
Live Updates
2021-10-14 05:34:07
14 Oct 2021 10:42 AM GMT
Desai: We are at a stage where we were arrested on October 3 and now on October 14.
Custody was given in bailable offence to facilitate investigation.
14 Oct 2021 10:39 AM GMT
Adv Desai continues that this is just because some alleged connection is found with a co-accused drug peddler.
14 Oct 2021 10:38 AM GMT
Adv Desai - You are a person at the bottom of the chain, you're a person affected by the drug menace as per the Govt.'s own policy, but instead of reforming you, I will pick you up and put you in prison.
14 Oct 2021 10:37 AM GMT
Adv Desai - If they believe that the contents of the mobile are imp, they have it. Why curtail my liberty? Nothing has been suggested that if he is released on bail investigation will be affected.
14 Oct 2021 10:35 AM GMT
Desai reads from the panchnama: If the phone is voluntarily taken then also there has to be something, but the panchnama says seized it was not handed over. There has to be a seizure memo.
14 Oct 2021 10:34 AM GMT
Desai - The mobile phone was seized but there is no seizure panchnama?
14 Oct 2021 10:32 AM GMT
Desai: Then this issue of mobile phone. I didn’t want to get into it too much. But my colleague knowledgeable on the subject has drawn attention on the phone.
Let me deal with that.
14 Oct 2021 10:30 AM GMT
Adv Desai - The retraction is on record.
14 Oct 2021 10:29 AM GMT
Adv Desai - In relation to this gentleman(AryanKhan) the department(NCB) may have crossed a legal line in an endeavor to convince the court to oppose his bail application.
Even assuming there is consumption, the max is one year.
14 Oct 2021 10:28 AM GMT
Adv Desai - The learned ASG had argued that celebrities and role models should be treated harshly so that it sets an example...
I believe that this was not his personal submission and it was on behalf of his client.
