Actor Shah Rukh Khan and his family have maintained a stoic silence over his son Aryan Khan’s arrest in connection with a drug case last year. However, NCB (Narcotics Control Bureau) deputy director (operations) Sanjay Singh, who headed the Special Investigations Team (SIT), spoke about the father’s condition at that time.

Speaking with India Today, Singh revealed Shah Rukh met him and raised concerns about Aryan’s physical and mental well-being when Aryan was in custody. Sanjay said that in one of their conversations, a teary-eyed Shah Rukh told Singh: “We have been painted as some kind of big criminals or monsters who are out to destroy society and we find going to work tough every day.”

Singh also added how Aryan told him that the agency was treating him like an “international drug trafficker”. As per Singh, Aryan said to him, “Sir, you have painted me as an international drug trafficker, that I finance drug trafficking — aren’t these charges absurd? They did not find any drugs on my person that day and yet they arrested me.”

Singh said that Aryan even asked if he deserved being in prison for so long when no evidence was found on him. “Sir, you have done me great wrong and ruined my reputation. Why did I have to spend so many weeks in jail — did I really deserve it?” Aryan asked him, Singh said.