Hansal Mehta, Swara Bhasker react to Aryan Khan's bail rejection

Filmmakers Rahul Dholakia and Hansal Mehta who are closely following Aryan Khans arrest in connection with a drugs case said the decision to reject his bail is heartbreaking and outrageous Aryan 23 was arrested on October 3 with seven others when the Narcotics Control Bureau NCB busted a drugs party on board a cruise ship He is currently in Arthur Road prison A special court here on Wednesday refused to grant bail to Aryan son of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan and two others in connection with the seizure of banned drugsAryans advocates then immediately filed an appeal in the HC challenging the lower courts order Dholakia termed the decision as outrageous and demanded that Aryan must be released soonOutrageous You are saying there is a ldquopossiblerdquo connection to his ldquointernationalrdquo racket based on ldquoWhatsApprdquo chat recovered from his phone that you confiscated on a ldquobustrdquo where he ldquohad nothingrdquo And you have been fishing for days and yet not found anything FreeAryanKhanmdash rahul dholakia rahuldholakia October 20 2021Without taking any names Mehta expressed his anguish in a tweet writing The travesty continues The ordeal continues Heartbreaking He also wroteBeing a celebrity being a star being from lsquoBollywoodrsquo means your emotion your torment and your concern as a father become a matter of public consumption heartless abuse and ruthless judgementmdash Hansal Mehta mehtahansal October 21 2021In a tweet actor Swara Bhasker called the courts decision a stunning abdication of lawStunning abdication of law by those charged with upholding the rule of lawAryanKhanBail AryanKhan AryankhanDrugsCasemdash Swara Bhasker ReallySwara October 20 2021Screenwriter Kanika Dhillon wrote on Twitter From whats being reported by media that Watsapp is shoddy evidence to deny bail Is it not about satyamev jayate anymore but harassment basis my name is and fall in line or else is this the msg to young India AryankhanDrugsCase AryanKhanBail SadScaryActor Konkona Sensharma shared a news snippet about the courts decision to reject Aryans bail Unbelievable she wrote Earlier in the day filmmaker Reema Kagti while commenting on a post about the bail hearing case of Aryan today said she hoped he would be given bail today I hope Aryan gets bail today He shouldnt have been arrested in the first place no possession no consumption and the NCBs argument that he is part of some international drug peddling ring is just a ridiculous lie to harass him and his family she wroteIn a strongly worded post on social media Kagti alleged that Aryan was being harassed for being son of a famous Muslim man referring to Shah RukhThe NCB themselves have declared this in court So with due respect you can stand by and say nothing while a 23 year old is harassed for being a famous Muslim manrsquos son but I choose not to thank you very much httpstcorQ9ELdAGYqmdash Reema Kagti kagtireema October 20 2021Three days ago author and former actor Twinkle Khanna compared the arrest of Aryan to the recently released South Korean survival human drama series Squid Game Each player is given ten marbles and must get their opponents marbles by competing in any game of their choosing In this episode one of the strongest candidates is badgered and ultimately bamboozled into losing his marbles I seem to have misplaced mine as well when I read the news about Shah Rukh Khans sons arrest she wrote on InstagramWhile his friend was apparently carrying 6 gm of charas there is reportedly no evidence of possession by Aryan Khan Yet the young boy has been languishing in Arthur Road jail for almost two weeks now Khanna who has worked with Shah Rukh in 1999s Badshah added Khannas husband Akshay Kumar hasnt commented on the issue yetSince Aryans arrest many Bollywood celebrities have come out in support of Shah Rukh on social media including superstar Hrithik Roshan filmmakers Zoya Akhtar Farah Khan Mehta comedian Johnny Lever actors Raveena Tandon Pooja Bhatt Vivek Vaswani Suchitra Krishnamoorthi and Roshans former wife Sussanne Khan among others Shah Rukhs close friend and superstar Salman Khan who stays a few minutes away from his residence Mannat in suburban Bandra has visited him quite a few times since the arrest of Aryan Many ardent fans of Shah Rukh have often been photographed outside his residence and the court expressing their solidarity with the family with bannersPHOTOS Shah Rukh Khan visits son Aryan Khan in Arthur Road JailThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever