Mumbai: Superstar Shah Rukh Khan and interior designer Gauri Khan’s son Aryan Khan and seven others have been detained by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in a drug case on Sunday. The detainees were partying in a cruise ship that was bound to go from Mumbai to Goa.
Apart from Aryan Khan, the others detained by the NCB are Munmun Dhamecha, Nupur Sarika, Ismeet Singh, Mohak Jaswal, Vikrant Chhoker, Gomit Chopra and Arbaaz Merchant.
After receiving a tip-off, the officials of NCB Mumbai conducted a raid on the cruise on October 2. During the operation, as per the information, various drugs like MDMA/ Ecstasy, Cocaine, MD (Mephedrone) and charas has been recovered from the suspects.
A total of eight persons including two women have been apprehended and their role is being investigated in relation to the said recovery of the drugs. NCB Mumbai has registered Crime no. Cr 94/21 in this matter. Further investigation is underway.
The raid was led by NCB’s zonal director Sameer Wankhede on Saturday evening.
"During the operation, the suspects were searched and different drugs were recovered from them, which they had hidden in their clothes, undergarments and purses (by women),” NCB officials told PTI.
The detainees will be produced in a court later in the day after the legal formalities get over, the NCB official had shared.
(With inputs from PTI).
