#Showbiz: Shah Rukh Khan's son arrested in cruise ship drug raid

KUALA LUMPUR: Bollywood superstar Datuk Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan, 23, was arrested in a recent drug raid on a cruise ship off the coast of Mumbai, India.

The raid was conducted last Saturday by the Narcotics Control Bureau of India (NCB).

Times of India reported that the raid yielded 13 grams of cocaine, 21 grams of charas, 22 pills of Ecstasy, and 5 grams of MD.

Aryan was booked for alleged consumption of charas, and is being investigated for the purchase, possession, and use of banned drugs. He was one of eight passengers arrested by the NCB.

Aryan's lawyer Satish Maneshinde said that he was arrested on the basis of chat messages.

"Aryan had no ticket, no cabin or seat on board the cruise.

"He was there because he had been invited. He didn't even have a boarding pass. Nothing has been found on him," said Maneshinde.

The NCB team had boarded the Goa-bound ship disguised as passengers. Passengers were searched thoroughly and different drugs were recovered from them, which they had hidden in their clothes and purses.

Aryan is the eldest of Shah Rukh's three children and a graduate of the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California in the United States.

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