Mumbai’s Arthur Road Jail officials on Friday said that Aryan Khan, who was granted bail in the drugs-on-cruise case, will be released from the jail on Saturday.
“Aryan Khan will not be released from the jail today. He will be released tomorrow morning,” jail officials said. Nitin Waychal, Arthur Road Jail Superintendent said, “A physical copy of the release order has to be put into the bail box outside Arthur Road Jail for the release. The jail officials waited until 5.35 pm for this.”
Earlier on Friday, Bombay High Court issued a detailed bail order for Aryan Khan which stated that the accused should appear before Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) every Friday and was asked to surrender his passport.
The court asked all three applicants—Aryan Khan, Arbaaz Merchant, Munmum Dhamecha—to appear before the NCB Mumbai office every Friday, between 11.00 am and 2.00 pm to mark their presence.
“Each accused be released on bail on furnishing a personal bond of Rs 1 lakh with one or more sureties of like amount,” the bail order said.
Aryan’s bail order stated that “he should not indulge in any similar activities, not try to establish contact with co-accused” and should not make any statement regarding the court proceedings before media.
On Thursday, Aryan Khan, Arbaaz Merchant and Munmun Dhamecha were granted bail by the court following the three-day hearing in the case.
Meanwhile, the Zonal Director of Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Mumbai unit, Sameer Wankhede on Friday rubbished the allegations of Maharashtra Cabinet Minister Nawab Malik that he didn’t arrest Kashif Khan, one of the organisers of the cruise party as Khan was his “friend”.
“Absolutely a lie and I can’t comment. Law will take its own course,” said Sameer Wankhede while reacting to Nawab Malik’s statement. Since the arrest in the drug-on-cruise case, a war of words has broken out between Sameer Wankhede and Nawab Malik. Nawab Malik had accused Wankhede of favouritism. Malik also made serious allegations of extortion against Wankhede and has also raised questions on the authenticity of his birth certificate and marriage.
Mumbai Police has appointed an ACP-level officer, Milind Khetle, to investigate the allegations levelled against Wankhede, who is leading the probe into the drugs-on-cruise case involving Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan.
“All the complaints received against Wankhede will be probed by the officer. Four Police stations in Mumbai have received such complaints so far,” the police had said.
Senior executive of Fashion TV, Kashif Khan on Friday denied the allegations made by Nawab Mallik and said he was not the organiser of the party on the Goa bound cruise, from where Aryan Khan was arrested. “I do not even know the NCB zonal director Sameer Wankhede” he told a news agency.