A Mumbai court on Wednesday remanded four more persons arrested in relation to the cruise ship drug case to Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) custody till October 14.
Thus a total of 16 persons have now been remanded to NCB custody including Aryan Khan, son of Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan, reports Bar and Bench.
The four accused, the latest to be remanded are Gopal Anand, Samir Saigal, Manav Singhal and Bhaskar Arora.
They were allegedly organizers of the event/ party on the cruise.
Earlier, Aryan Khan, Arbaaz Merchant, Munmun Dhamecha, Nupur Sarika, Ismeet Singh, Mohak Jaswal, Vikrant Chhoker, Gomit Chopra, Abdul Kadir, Shreyas Nair, Manish Rajgariya and Avin Sahu were remanded to NCB custody.
On Monday, October 4, Aryan Khan and seven others were remanded to NCB custody till October 7, 2021.
Later on Tuesday, four additional accused were remanded to NCB custody till October 11, 2021.
All sixteen accused were arrested by NCB after a raid was conducted on Cordelia Cruises’ Empress ship based on specific information of a supposed rave party.
Special Public Prosecutor Advait Sethna appearing for the NCB submitted before the Court on Wednesday that the four accused were part of the organising team of the party which was to be conducted on the cruise.
Advocates Harsh Gangurde briefed by Sajal Yadav opposed the remand stating that their detention was illegal.
After hearing the submissions and based on the alleged contraband seized, Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate RM Nerlikar held that investigation was required and granted custody to NCB till October 14.
During the operation, NCB claimed to have recovered 13 grams of Cocaine, 5 grams of Mephedrone, 21 grams of charas, 22 pills of MDMA ecstasy and ?1.33 lakhs in cash.
The accused have been booked for offences under Sections 8(c), 20(b), 27, 28, 29 and 35 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.
