MUMBAI: Seven months ago after two lower courts denied him bail-one of them considered the case on merits-it was Bombay high court that found no grounds in the Narcotics Control Bureau action against Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan and released him on bail. The HC order came days after the sessions court accepted the agency's contention of a criminal conspiracy showing Khan being allegedly in touch with people abroad who appeared to be part of an international ring linked to drug trafficking.
The same agency's special investigation team (SIT) on Friday gave the 24-year-old Khan a clean chit and dropped its case against him for lack of evidence, echoing the HC's observations. Justice Nitin Sambre of the HC had in his October 28 bail order said there was no evidence to show Khan, his friend Arbaaz Merchant or Munmun Dhamecha and other suspects had hatched a conspiracy to commit drug-related crimes.
