The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has detained Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan's son Aaryan Khan and seven others after it raided a cruise ship named Cordelia here and busted a drugs party, an official said on Sunday.
The detainees include two women, he said.
Apart from Aaryan Khan, the others were identified as Munmun Dhamecha, Nupur Sarika, Ismeet Singh, Mohak Jaswal, Vikrant Chhoker, Gomit Chopra and Arbaaz Merchant, the NCB official said, adding that different drugs like MDMA, ecstasy, cocaine, MD (mephedrone) and charas were recovered from them during the raid conducted on Saturday evening.
According to a report by anandabazar.com, Aaryan has admitted that he had taken drugs during the party. The information came up from the superstar's son while he was being questioned by NDB officials at its Ballard Estate office in south Mumbai.
According to NCB sources, after about six hours of interrogation, Aryan admitted that he had taken drugs at the cruise rave party.
The report by anandabazar.com also suggests that Aaryan's WhatsApp chats are also being investigated for further information. Officials are scrutinising everything including whom he talked to or kept in touch with. They are also trying to ascertain whether he was part of any drug racket.
So far, however, the central bureau has not issued a statement on the matter. Nothing was reported on behalf of Shah Rukh's family either. According to the NCB, Aaryan entered the party without any entry fee as his name was on the 'VVIP' list. He himself has admitted this in the interrogation, its sources were quoted as saying by anadabazar.com.
The anti-drug agency has registered an FIR in connection with the drugs party, he said.
Based on a tip-off that a party was scheduled on the ship, an NCB team, led by its zonal director Sameer Wankhede, had raided the Goa-bound Cordelia cruise ship on Saturday evening and recovered drugs from some of the passengers, the official said.
"During the operation, the suspects were searched and different drugs were recovered from them, which they had hidden in their clothes, undergarments and purses (by women).
The detained persons will be produced in a court later in the day after the legal formalities get over, the NCB official said.
Early this morning, the NCB questioned the detainees at its office here, he said.
If any information is found against Aaryan, a case may be filed against him under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act. For now, NCB officials are trying to get various information about the party from the Bollywood superstar's son.