Aryan Khan's Driver, Employed by SRK, Questioned by NCB in Mumbai Cruise Ship Drugs Bust Case

The Narcotics Control Bureau is questioning the driver of Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan who is currently lodged at Arthur Road Jail for his alleged involvement in the rave party that was busted on board the Cordelia cruise ship last week. Sources say that the SRK employee is under scanner as the NCB sleuths are looking to establish the source of the drugs seized from the cruise ship, and how they were procured.

Also, he had dropped Aryan at the cruise terminal the night of its departure from Mumbai to Goa; the NCB’s questioning will be on these lines, sources added.

“We are investigating him, nothing else can be revealed right now,” NCB’s Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede told reporters.

The NCB is also questioning film producer Imtiyaz Khatri after his name cropped up during the interrogation of the accused persons. The agency had earlier in the day also conducted searches at his residence and office.

Both Khatri and SRK’s driver were summoned to NCB offices at 11 am and their questioning went on till late Saturday evening, sources said. Khatri was spotted exiting the offices at around 6:30 pm.

Meanwhile, the NCB made the 19th arrest in the case with a person from Khar (West) who allegedly supplied drugs to another arrested accused in the case – Arbaaz Merchant.

Aryan was sent to the Arthur Road prison on Friday after a court denied him bail. Along with him, five other men arrested in the case too were sent to the same jail, while two women accused including Munmun Dhamecha were sent to Byculla women’s prison.

Aryan was arrested by an undercover NCB team on Sunday following a raid on a Goa-bound cruise ship. On Thursday, the court had rejected the NCB’s request for further custody of Aryan and seven others and instead sent them in 14-day judicial custody. Incidentally, the court’s order rejecting bail to Aryan came on his mother Gauri Khan’s 51st birthday.

A total of 18 persons have been arrested in the case. The court on Friday also remanded Nigerian national Chinedu Igwe, the latest person to be arrested, in the NCB’s custody till October 11.

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