A special court for Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act cases in Mumbai on Wednesday allowed Aryan Khan's plea se꧟eking his pa♏ssport back. The court also cancelled his bail bond.
Aryan Khan, the son of Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan, got a clean chit from the Nar🐻cotics Control Bureau (NCB) in a drugs-on-cruise case in May this year. When he got bail after his arrest for alleged drug use in October 2021 during a raid 🌠on a cruise ship here, Aryan Khan had deposited his passport with the court.
The NCB, which filed the charge sheet in the case in May, did not name him and five others as accused, citing “lack of sufficient evidence."
Following the `clean chit' from the anti-drugs agency, Aryan Khan's lawyers Amit Desai and Rahul Agarwal moved the trial court seeking his passport back.
The NCB, in its🍌 response𒉰, said it had no objection to the demand. No investigation was pending against him, it added.
Special NDPS court judge V V Pati🦹l then directed the court registrar to return the passport to Aryan Khan permanently.
"The bail🏅 bonds of the applicant Aryan Shah Rukh Khan are hereby stand cancelled and his surety stands d🦹ischarged," court said while deciding another plea by his lawyers.
Bail bonds and sureties are demande🦩d by courts while granting bail as a guarantee that the person will obey bail conditions during the pendency of the case. With Aryan Khan getti꧒ng a clean chit in the NCB's case, the bonds and surety became redundant, said a lawyer.
[With Inputs From PTI]
