Aryan Khan, son of
Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, was granted bail on Thursday by the Bombay
High Court. The 23-year-old got bail after three days of perusal before the
high court following the special NDPS court’s refusal to grant bail. Aryan Khan
was arrested in the cruise-on-drugs case earlier this month after the Narcotics
Control Bureau (NCB) raided a cruise ship off the Mumbai coast.

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After the Bombay
High Court granted bail to Aryan Khan, who has been in judicial custody since October
8, a number of celebrities came forward to convey their best wishes to Aryan as
well as to his parents Shah Rukh Khan and Gauri Khan. Actor R Madhavan was
among the first people to tweet. “Thank god. As a father I am So relieved…May
all good and positive things happen (sic),” he wrote on Twitter.

Sonu Sood, Shah
Rukh’s co-star in “Happy New Year” and someone in the news for helping people
out during the first pandemic-induced lockdown in the country wrote in Hindi: “When
time does justice, one doesn’t need witnesses”.

Swara Bhasker,
actor and activist who often makes the news for making statements against the
ruling regime in the country, simply wrote: “FINALLY!” with clap emojis.

Singer Mika Singh
too spoke out on the occasion and congratulated Aryan Khan on getting bail. “Congratulations
to Aryan Khan and to the other accused for getting bail. I’m so happy that it
was finally granted, bro @iamsrk Bhagwan ke ghar mein der hai andher nahi. You
have contributed hugely to the fraternity. God bless both you and your family.”

Film director
Hansal Mehta wrote, “I want to have a blast tonight!”, while Sanjay Gupta had a
more discursive perspective. “I am very happy that Aryan Khan has gotten bail
but also very upset with a system that kept a young man behind bars for more
than 25 days for something he never did. That has to change!!! God bless you
and be strong Aryan Khan,” he wrote.