Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan drug case live updates: Satish Maneshinde: We are grateful to Almighty that our prayers were accepted

Aryan Khan, the son of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan was granted bail Thursday, three weeks after being arrested during a cruise ship drugs bust by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB).

After the Bombay High Court granted bail to Aryan Khan in the cruise drugs case, Maharashtra minister and NCP leader Nawab Malik on Thursday continued to target NCB's zonal director Sameer Wankhede, by quoting Shah Rukh Khan's iconic dialogue from the movie 'Om Shanti Om'.

Aryan Khan, son of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, was on Thursday granted bail by the Bombay High Court, 25 days after his arrest by the NCB in the case of seizure of banned drugs aboard a cruise ship off the Mumbai coast earlier this month, a drugs bust that triggered a series of controversies and put the central agency and its officials under the spotlight.

The Bombay High Court granted bail to Aryan Khan, Arbaaz Merchant and Munmun Dhamecha who were nabbed in the cruise ship rave party raided by the Narcotics Control Bureau. Now, fans have taken to their social media to celebrate the HC's verdict.

Aryan Khan, son of superstar Shah Rukh Khan, was on Thursday granted bail by the Bombay High Court, over 25 days after his arrest in the case of seizure of banned drugs aboard a cruise ship off the Mumbai coast.

Narcotics Control Bureau zonal director Sameer Wankhede approached Bombay High Court seeking interim protection against arrest over the inquiry against him by the Maharashtra government. He demanded a probe by CBI or any central agency in the matter.

Maharashtra minister and NCP state chief Jayant Patil on Thursday claimed that the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) was being used to "harass and defame" citizens. Speaking to reporters in Ratnagiri, he also said that party leader and state minister Nawab Malik, who has levelled various allegations against NCB's Mumbai zonal director Sameer Wankhede, was "bringing out the truth".

I was not aware what he was carrying, take it that he knew, but the most that they can allege against us is commercial quantity collectively. That is added with conspiracy. There is no 27A invoked against me. The conspiracy with 5-8 people with me, their recovery after you total up then there is commercial quantity. There was no conspiracy because there was no meeting of minds. There was no discussion that they met and decided that they will get the substance and smoke, that is conspiracy. If there are people in a hotel in different rooms and they smoke are all people in hotel in conspiracy. There is no material for calling it a conspiracy in this case. I knew only Arbaaz, I did not know anyone else. It is true it is difficult to prove that there is common meeting of mind. but facts cannot be ignored. There has to be meeting of minds. how can there be conscious possession for 6 gms. Their argument is that because it is not conincidence it is a conspiracy. Conspiracy can’t have anything to do with conjecture.

Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik, who has repeatedly termed the NCB's cruise drugs case as "fake", on Thursday sought to know why no action was taken against organisers of the cruise party. He also claimed that an organiser of the cruise party was a "friend" of the Narcotics Control Bureau's (NCB) Mumbai zonal director Sameer Wankhede.