MUMBAI: On October 20, while rejecting the bail plea of Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan, special NDPS judge VV Patil said NCB papers show that Aryan Khan was in “conscious possession” of a small quantity of charas. The judge, while discarding his counsel’s submission of there being no possession and thus no case against Aryan, said, “Though no contraband is found in possession of accused no 1 (Khan), six grams of charas was found in possession of accused no 2 (Arbaaz Merchant) of which (Khan) was having knowledge, and thus it can be said it was in conscious possession of both accused.”
It said record shows Khan and Merchant, “admittedly friends since long,” travelled together and were “apprehended together at the international cruise terminal.” It said “in their statements, both disclosed they were possessing said substance for their consumption and enjoyment.” Khan has pleaded the case against him is false.
