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Mumbai cruise drugs: Court summons accused, says enough material

MUMBAI: Holding that there’s sufficient material and that all the chemical analysis reports were positive, a special Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act court on Friday took cognisance of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) chargesheet submitted against 14 accused in the cruise drugs bust case. The court has asked…

The Times of India · Jun 24, 2022

Mumbai cruise drugs case: Protection for pedlars alleged in chargesheet

MUMBAI: An accused in the cruise drugs case, Arbaaz Merchant told the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) that in 2018 he had tried to complain to police about peddlers from a Khar chawl who were selling “laced drugs” that made “children ill” and caused “organ damage.” Merchant (26), a friend of…

The Times of India · May 31, 2022

Mumbai cruise drugs case: Insomnia, stress, pressure at work cited for drug use, says NCB chargesheet

MUMBAI: Coping with insomnia, family issues, loss of a parent, study and work pressure were among the main reasons for taking drugs that some of the accused and others cited in their statements to the NCB as part of the cruise drugs case. The chargesheet was submitted on Friday.

The Times of India · May 29, 2022

Mumbai cruise drugs bust case: Officer checked Aryan Khan's phone chats without seizing it, says SIT

MUMBAI: In an internal report, the NCB's SIT has faulted the investigation process in the drugs case, saying Aryan Khan's mobile phone was "voluntarily handed over by him" but it "was not followed by formal seizure procedure".

The Times of India · May 27, 2022

Raid had opened can of worms on use of ‘habitual’ panch witnesses

MUMBAI: The cruise drugs bust triggered a controversy after it emerged that Kiran Gosavi, one of the panch witnesses, had a criminal background.

The Times of India · May 27, 2022

Aryan Khan may have been falsely implicated in drug case: SIT report

NEW DELHI: The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has given a clean chit to Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan, who was arrested in connection with seizure of drugs from some passengers aboard a cruise ship last year and had spent 27 days behind bars.

The Times of India · May 27, 2022