Aryan Khan will spend a few more days at the Arthur Road Jail, as the special NDPS court reserved its order on his bail application on Thursday. It is likely to pronounce the judgment on October 20. In heated arguments in court, the NCB claimed that going by his WhatsApp chats, Aryan “has been into it [drugs] since the past few years”. Aryan’s counsel argued that language in the chats could mean something else.

Aryan, his friend Arbaaz Merchant and another accused Munmun Dhamecha, whom the NCB nabbed from the cruise liner after alleged seizure of drugs on October 2, had filed their respective pleas for bail.  The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), through the additional solicitor general (ASG), told the court that Aryan is also a part of a chain for procurement and distribution of contraband. He was in touch with some foreign nationals suspected to be a part of international drug cartel, the ASG added.