The Bombay high court on August 30 rejected the bail application of actor Ajaz Khan saying that his role in drug trafficking was disclosed by a witness whose statement was that “he was selling pills and he was exploiting young boys and girls by supplying them drugs”. The judge said, “It can be seen that though there is recovery of small quantity of contraband from the applicant, he is connected to recovery of commercial quantity from the co-accused and, therefore, the case sought to be projected by the counsel (Satish) Maneshinde, cannot be accepted.”
Maneshinde had argued that the Narcotics Control Bureau had detained the actor in March 2021 but that he had been roped in… in a mala fide manner.
The HC order said, “Considering the drug to be a menace and considering that in the past also, the applicant was arrested in connection with a C.R. which invoked section 8(c) read with section 22(b) of the Act, though has been released on bail, since the quantity was found to be non-commercial quantity, there are reasonable grounds to believe that the applicant would again indulge in similar activity, since while on bail in the previous C.R., he has committed the present offence.”