The court says WhatsApp chats are not enough proof that the accused supplied drugs to Aryan Khan

Granting bail to 22-year-old Archit Kumar, who was arrested in the drugs on cruise case by the NCB, a special court said that merely based on WhatsApp chats, it cannot be gathered that he was a supplier to Aryan Khan and his friend Arbaaz Merchant.

A special judge V V Patil granted bail to nine accused on Saturday, two days after the Bombay High Court permitted to grant bail to Aryan Khan, Arbaaz Merchant, and Munmun Dhamecha. In the order on the bail plea of five of the nine accused, the judge said there is no proof that they were a part of the conspiracy. Earlier while rejecting bails to Aryan, Merchant, and Dhamecha on 20th October, the special court agreed with the NCB’s contention that the accused were linked by a common thread.