NCB officers at actor Shah Rukh Khan's Bandra residence on Thursday

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Thursday said that it will hear the bail plea of Aryan Khan (23), son of actor Shah Rukh Khan, in the cruise drug bust case on October 26.

A day after his bail application was rejected by the special trial court, Aryan moved the HC. He has taken additional grounds before the HC for his bail plea, including denial of allegation of his non-cooperation of any kind in his remand pleas till date, and no claims by the NCB so far that he has not given any names and hence, claiming now that he was not giving names or details of persons is “erroneous and contrary to the record”.

Aryan’s counsel Satish Maneshinde mentioned his bail application before Justice N W Sambre and sought a hearing. He said there was nothing found on the 23-year-old and that there was no evidence at all in the case registered by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) against him.

The trial court had also rejected bail applications of co-accused Arbaaz Merchant (26) and Munmun Dhamecha (28). While both filed separate petitions for bail before the Bombay high court, Dhamecha’s lawyer Ali Kaashif Khan also sought and was granted October 26 as the date of hearing, after ASG Anil Singh for NCB sought time till then.

Aryan’s bail plea states, “There is no presumption in law that merely because a person is influential, there is a likelihood of tampering with investigation.” The bail rejection order of the sessions court had cited it as one of the reasons in denying him bail. The NCB had cited the Bombay HC order in the bail rejection for Showik Chakraborty, arrested last year in connection with the drugs probe linked to the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput, to argue a case of ‘conspiracy’ and the trial court had relied on it too, but Aryan’s plea says that the judgment “is not applicable to the facts” of his case “as in that case, the accused [Chakraborty] was allegedly a conduit between consumers and suppliers…and that he was “part of chain of drug dealers”, while the allegations against him [Aryan] are “only of possession of small quantity and personal consumption”.