Mumbai Drug Bust Updates: Aryan Khan speaks to Shah Rukh-Gauri over video call from jail

As per the latest update, Aryan Khan spoke to his father Shah Rukh Khan and mother Gauri Khan via video call from inside Mumbai's Arthur Road Jail, confirmed jail officials. Aryan Khan got very emotional during this conversation. According to the jail administration, the conversation took place two-three days ago in the presence of a prison guard.

About 11 smartphones are available in the Arthur Road Jail Administration to enable prisoners to communicate with their families or lawyers. As per the COVID protocol, visiting prisoners in jail is prohibited, however, 10 minutes per call is allowed at least once a week and maximum twice. 

-- inputs by JP Singh

Aryan Khan, who was lodged in Arthur Road Jail, was restless the whole night after he was shifted to the common barrack on Thursday. The 23-year-old is very nervous and upset after coming to jail. He did not sleep well throughout the night. In view of Aryan's security, the police are keeping an eye on him all the time.

In the cruise drugs case, all the 6 accused arrested including Aryan are kept in different barracks. Aryan is currently wearing clothes he brought from home. 

-- inputs by Atul Singh

According to jail officials, on October 11, a money order of Rs 4500 was received by Aryan's family in the jail authority. This money has been given in the form of coupons for the expenses for Aryan Khan's canteen. In the canteen, they can buy essential things by giving these coupons.

According to the jail manual, the accused in any jail can get a money order once in a month which cannot exceed Rs 4500.

Aryan Khan has been given a number in Arthur Road Jail. It is 956. Every accused coming to the Under Trial Jail is given a number through which he is called for giving allowance ie jail food, taking coupons from the jail canteen or taking part in other prison activities. An under-trial accused in jail is not called by his name but by the number given to him. 

Aryan and other accused were kept in quarantine barracks for seven days. Their quarantine period ended on Wednesday. All of them were subjected to RT-PCR tests for coronavirus on Wednesday morning, and as the results were negative, they were separated from each other and shifted to various general barracks.

Aryan (23), arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on October 3 from a cruise ship off the Mumbai coast, will have to remain in jail for at least six more days, as a special court earlier in the day posted his and two others' bail pleas for orders on October 20.

Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan and five others arrested in a drug seizure case have been now shifted to general barracks of the Arthur Road prison in Mumbai as their quarantine period was over.

Aryan Khan was arrested on October 3. He is currently in judicial custody and lodged at the Arthur Road prison in Mumbai. He approached the special court for bail after his plea for the same was rejected by a magistrate's court last week on the ground that it did not have the jurisdiction to decide the matter.