The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) raided filmmaker Imtiaz Khatri’s home and office in Mumbai’s Bandra area as part of its probe into the drug seizure case that has led to the arrest of several people including Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan.
The NCB conducted the raids after Khatri’s name came up during the interrogation of Achit Kumar, who was arrested earlier this week from suburban Powai for possession of “hydroponic weed alias multi-strain cannabis.”
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Khatri has been previously accused of supplying drugs to Sushant Singh Rajput, whose death by suicide triggered a multiple-agency probe into the alleged widespread use of drugs in Bollywood.
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According to media reports, Khatri is the son of a famous builder. He’s also a producer and owns VVIP Universal Entertainment Company. Khatri is reportedly a regular at star-studded Bollywood parties.
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Aryan Khan was sent to the Arthur Road prison in Mumbai on Friday after a local court rejected his bail for the third time, along with five other men arrested in the case. Additional chief metropolitan magistrate RM Nerlikar also rejected the bail pleas of Munmun Dhamecha and Arbaaz Merchant.
Aryan and the other accused were arrested by NCB following a drug bust on a cruise ship off the Mumbai coast. The anti-narcotics agency has said it found 13 grams of cocaine, 21 grams of charas, 22 pills of MDMA and 5 grams of MD during the raid. An unnamed NCB official quoted by news agency PTI said said the drugs were found hidden in clothes, underwear and purses.
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NCB, Mumbai zone Director Sameer Wankhede said on Friday that the NCB and the prosecution will take the drug bust case to its logical conclusion. “Our case is strong and will be presented in the sessions court,” Wankhede was quoted as saying.
