Shiv Sena member urges court to investigate NCB
In a significant development, a senior Shiv Sena leader urged the Supreme Court to order a probe by a sitting judge of the apex court into the affairs of Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) and violation of fundamental rights of Aryan Khan, son of Bollywood megastar Shah Rukh Khan.
Making the plea under Article 32 of the Constitution, Kishore Tiwari, accorded the Minister of State (MoS) status, has urged Chief Justice N.V. Ramana’s ‘top priority’ intervention into the manner in which the ‘biased’ NCB is ‘hounding’ film personalities, models and other celebs for nearly two years with ‘malafide motives’.
He said that under Article 32, the Supreme Court and the Chief Justice of India (CJI) are duty-bound to take cognisance of every matter pertaining to the fundamental rights violation, as guaranteed under Part III of the Indian Constitution. Referring to the Special NDPS Court deferring the verdict in the bail plea until October 20, while citing public holidays, the plea said this has subjected the accused “to big humiliation and kept in jail in an undemocratic and illegal way” for 17 nights.