Shiv Sena leader moves Supreme Court, seeks justice to Aryan Khan

Shiv Sena leader Kishore Tiwari is seeking the intervention of the Supreme Court in Aryan Khan drug case. Mr. Tiwari alleged that NCB is doing vendetta against Bollywood actors and celebrities and falsely implicating them in drug cases.

Shiv Sena leader moves Supreme Court, seeks justice to Aryan Khan

New Delhi:  Shiv Sena leader Kishore Tiwari wrote a letter to the Supreme Court seeking suo-moto enquiry to protect the fundamental rights of Aryan Khan, son of Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan, who is currently in judicial custody in crush ship drug case.

In the letter, the petitioner has seeking the intervention of the Apex Court to order a judicial enquiry into the role of an officer at the Narcotic Control Bureau (NCB) who is allegedly targeting Bollywood actors and celebrities with ulterior motives.

Meanwhile, the Session Court will pass the order on the bail petition of Aryan Khan on Wednesday. It has reserved the order after hearing both sides of argument on last week.

"I am most respectfully submitting the present petition with the humble request to Your Honour to take suo moto cognizance as the law enforcement agencies – NCB under NDPS Act is abusing position and trying to deprive the basic Human Rights of the person accused under NDPS Act and by misconstruing the provisions of the law, the poor, innocent people are being put behind the bars," Shiv Sena leader stated in the letter, Bar and Bench reported.

The petitioner has alleged that NCB officer’s wife is a noted well-known Marathi actress, but could not able to make it big in Bollywood, thus NCB officer taking revenge against celebrities and Bollywood actors starting with Sushant Singh Rajput’s suicide case, he alleged.

"This ongoing NCB operations seems out of a personal vendetta only. In past 15-18 months, what (is the) motive for targeting only top film personalities, their families, national-international models, producers-directors, etc., Starting from the Sushant Singh Rajput death matter, the probe is totally diverted in an unrelated direction," the petition said in the letter.

Further petitioner has stated that the Special Court has deferred the bail petition of Aryan Khan to October 20, but the accused has faced humiliation and was kept in jail, it is undemocratic and his fundamental rights have been violated, the petitioner said.

"The malafide, autocratic, style, approach and dirty vendetta affairs of NCB officer at Mumbai, targeting select film celebrity and few models since last two years is also a matter of big concern given a fact that officer’s wife at Mumbai is also a film celebrity having a direct competition with the models & film celebrities against whom her husband NCB official is taking action under NDPS Act,", the Shiv Sena leader stated in the letter. The petitioner seeking suo-moto hearing of the case and ordered for enquiry into the matter.