A sessions court in Mumbai on Thursday granted 60 days to the NCB SIT to file a chargesheet in the Cordelia cruise drug case, in which Aryan Khan and other accused are involved, said an ANI report. Today was the last day to file the chargesheet.
The probe agency had on Monday filed an application before Special Judge VV Patil seeking 90 days’ time to file chargesheet in the case as the probe in the high-profile case was still going on. However, the judge, after hearing the arguments of both the prosecution and defense lawyers, gave the probe agency 60 more days to file the chargesheet in the case.
The NCB, through a Special Public Prosecutor, had argued that there were “coercive reasons” for seeking an extension. The NCB had last year made Aryan Khan an accused in the case along with 19 others. The 24-year-old was arrested by the NCB on October 3 last year after a raid on a cruise ship off the Mumbai coast.
The accused persons were booked under relevant sections of the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act for alleged possession, consumption, sale/purchase of banned drugs, conspiracy and abetment, among others. The probe agency has claimed that the chemical test reports of all the 17 samples were received on March 12, which proves that the entire narcotic substance recovered during the raids was narcotic/psychotropic drugs.
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