Anti-drugs agency visits SRK's home: 'Wasn't a raid'

AMID the sensational episode surrounding the arrest of Aryan Khan, the visit by a Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) team at Shah Rukh Khan’s residence in Mumbai on Thursday (21) created a flutter. The anti-drugs agency, however, said that the visit to the superstar’s house “wasn’t a raid” and was meant only for paperwork.

The NCB officials visited Khan’s residence hours after he met his 23-year-old son in jail.

According to the agency, the team visited Khan’s ‘Mannat’ for “certain material related to the investigation of the case”.

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Aryan Khan (ANI Photo)

“It wasn’t a raid as erroneously reported in certain sections of media,” NCB officer Sameer Wankhede said in a statement. Aryan was arrested along with some others after the NCB, led by Wankhede, conducted a raid on a luxury cruise off the coast of Mumbai in the intervening night between October 2 and 3.

Aryan has been denied bail since then.

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Speculation went wild as another team of the anti-drugs agency visited the home of actor Ananya Pandey.

On Thursday morning, Khan senior went to meet his son at Mumbai’s Arthur Road Jail for the first time since he was arrested following a drugs raid on a rave party on the cruise ship.

On Wednesday (20), Aryan was denied bail by a special court in Mumbai and his lawyers have now approached the Bombay High Court, which will take up the plea on Tuesday (26). Khan spent around 20 minutes in jail and left without speaking to the media with his hands folded.

Khan and his wife Gauri Khan spoke to their son in a video call on Friday (15).

While voices have been heard from the Bollywood film fraternity against the arrest of Aryan, the industry has been largely mute in its response.