Aryan Khan, the son of Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan, can now travel outside India after a Mumbai court granted him access to his passport on Wednesday. His bail bond was also revoked by the court.
In May of this year, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) cleared Aryan Khan in a drugs-on-cruise case.
Aryan had deposited his passport with the court after his arrest for alleged drug use in October 2021 during a raid on a cruise ship here.
The NCB, which filed the charge sheet in the case in May, did not name him and five others as accused, citing “lack of sufficient evidence.” Following the clean chit’ from the anti-drugs agency, Aryan’s lawyers Amit Desai and Rahul Agarwal moved the trial court seeking his passport back.
The NCB, in its response, said it had no objection to the demand.
It was also stated that no investigation was ongoing against him.
V V Patil, a special NDPS court judge, then directed the court registrar to permanently return Aryan’s passport.
“The bail bonds of the applicant Aryan Shah Rukh Khan are hereby stand cancelled and his surety stands discharged,” court said while deciding another plea by Aryan’s lawyers.
Bail bonds and sureties are demanded by courts while granting bail as a guarantee that the person will obey bail conditions during the pendency of the case. With Aryan getting a clean chit in the NCB’s case, the bonds and surety became redundant, said a lawyer.
