Aryan Khan to HC: NCB 'misinterpreting' WhatsApp chats to implicate me

Aryan Khan, son of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, in his plea to the Bombay High Court seeking bail, has said the NCB was "misinterpreting" his WhatsApp chats to implicate him, in the case of seizure of banned drugs aboard a cruise ship off the Mumbai coast earlier this month.

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Aryan Khan, currently in jail, moved the HC after a special NDPS court rejected his application for bail. The High Court will hear his bail plea on October 26.

In his appeal against the special court order, Aryan Khan said the Narcotics Control Bureau's "interpretation and misinterpretation" of the WhatsApp chats collected from his mobile phone was "wrong and unjustified".

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The 23-year-old claimed no contraband was recovered from him, after the NCB raided the ship, and maintained he has no connection with any of the other accused in the case except Arbaaz Merchant and Aachit Kumar.

The appeal further said the purported WhatsApp chats that are being relied upon by the NCB, can by no stretch of imagination be linked to any conspiracy for which the secret information was received.

Aryan Khan also questioned the special court's contention, while refusing him bail. His plea stated, that there is no presumption in law that just because a person is influential, there is likelihood of him tampering with the evidence.

Aryan Khan was arrested on October 3 by the NCB along with his friend Arbaaz Merchant and Munmun Dhamecha. The trio is presently in judicial custody.