Aryan Khan drug case: SIT finds no conspiracy, several questions on cruise raid, says report

In a big twist in the alleged Aryan Khan drug case, the Special Investigation has found that there is no evidence that Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan was part of a larger drugs conspiracy or an international drugs trafficking syndicate.

The Hindustan Times has reported that the SIT has found several irregularities in the raid on the yacht Cordelia during which Aryan Khan was arrested.

Report quoting unnamed sources has said that contrary to the allegations of NCB’s Mumbai unit, the SIT has found that:
Aryan Khan was never in possession of drugs hence there was no need to take his phone and check his chats;
The chats do not suggest Khan was part of any international syndicate;
The raid was not video-recorded as mandated by the NCB manual; and
The drugs recovered from multiple accused arrested in the case shown as single recovery.

The HT report has added that the SIT probe has raise more questions over the raid itself, and the conduct of the agency’s former Mumbai Zonal Unit director Sameer Wankhede.

Wankhede led a raid on the cruise ship on the night of October 2 last year and had arrested Aryan Khan and several others. Aryan Khan had spent over 3 weeks in jail before getting bail. The Bombay High Court had rejected the NCB's claims of a conspiracy while giving Aryan bail.

A key NCB witness had alleged that Sameer Wankhede was part of a ₹25 crore extortion racket targeting Aryan Khan. Wankhede has since then been removed from the case.

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