Aryan Khan speaks to parents, recieves Rs 4500 for 'canteen expenses'

Arthur Road jail officials said Aryan Khan has received a money order of Rs 4,500 for his expenses in the jail canteen and recently spoke to his parents

Mumbai (Maharashtra):Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan's son Aryan Khan who has been lodged in Arthur Road Jail in the city recently spoke to his parents via video call and received Rs. 4500 via money order.

The junior Khan is currently in judicial custody after he was arrested by the NCB during a drug seizure on a Goa-bound cruise ship.

"As physical meetings with family members are not possible due to COVID-19 norms, all the undertrials are permitted to speak to their kin via video call once or twice a week.

Accordingly, Aryan Khan was allowed to speak to his father Shah Rukh Khan and mother Gauri Khan via audiovisual facility," a prison official said.

The jail authorities received the money order from Aryan Khan's family on October 11, which is meant for his expenses in the jail canteen. As per the rules of the jail, a prisoner can receive a money order of Rs 4,500 maximum for their expenses inside the jail.

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Aryan Khan has been given an identification number which is given to the undertrials lodged in prison. He allowed to make a video call to his parents about 2 to 3 days ago, a prison official said.

Aryan is being served food that is cooked inside the prison and he is not allowed to have any outside food, he said.

"The food is of good quality and served as per the required standards," he said.

There is a canteen facility inside the prison premises and he can purchase the necessary things, the official said.

Aryan Khan and five other accused, who were arrested by Narcotic Control Bureau (NCB) in connection with the cruise ship drug raid case, have been shifted to the common cell of Mumbai's Arthur Road Jail after their Covid report came negative on Thursday. They were earlier lodged at the quarantine barrack of the Arthur Road Jail here.

An NCB team busted an alleged drugs party on the Cordelia Cruise ship which was on its way to Goa at mid-sea on October 2.

A total of 20 people, including two Nigerian nationals, have been arrested so far in the case related to the seizure of drugs following a raid at a party on the Cordelia cruise ship off the Mumbai coast on October 2.

(With inputs from agencies)