Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan's son gets bail in drugs case

An Indian court on Thursday (Oct 28) granted bail to the son of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, more three weeks after he was arrested in a drugs case that has dominated news headlines and polarised social media in the movie theater-obsessed nation.

"The court has granted bail only now and hopefully all the three petitioners volition come out of jail tomorrow or on Saturday," Mukul Rohatgi, a lawyer who appeared for Khan's son, told reporters outside a court in Republic of india'due south financial capital Mumbai.

Aryan Khan, 23, the Bollywood player'due south eldest son, was 1 of several people arrested on Oct 2 later a raid on a prowl ship sailing off Mumbai's coastline.

FILE Photograph: Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan speaks during an interview with Reuters in Mumbai, India, Jan eighteen, 2017. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui

Fans of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan hold a poster outside his house, Mannat, after his eldest son Aryan Khan was granted bail by the Bombay High Court more than three weeks after he was arrested in a drugs case, in Mumbai, Bharat, October 28, 2021. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas

The Narcotic Control Agency, the federal bureau that conducted the raid, has alleged that Khan's son is a regular user and supplier of drugs.

Khan'due south son, through lawyers, has denied the charges, contending that no drugs were found on him during the raid.

Nawab Malik, a minister in the state cabinet of Maharashtra, of which Mumbai is capital letter, has alleged that the charges on Khan'southward son and others are trumped upward, and demanded that the officeholder in accuse of the investigation be changed.

The officer, Sameer Wankhede, has denied the allegations.

Khan, a Muslim and 1 of India's all-time known public figures, has found much support on social media as his son's legal case continued for weeks.

"Thank god," said actor Ranganathan Madhavan in a tweet later the bail order. "As a begetter I am so relieved."

Many loftier-profile Indian actors and TV personalities take been nether scrutiny from narcotics officials since last year.

In September 2020, several top female actors were questioned past the NCB, though it was unclear how the investigation progressed.

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