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After being nabbed by NCB (October 2) and remanded to judicial custody (October 7), the decision on Aryan Khan's bail plea has been adjourned till October 20. The star kid will spend at least six more days inside the Arthur Road jail. According to earlier reports, Aryan was shifted to the normal ward, after completing his 5-day quarantine period as per the new norms in jail due to Covid-19. The normal ward can house around 500 inmates. As per new reports, since Aryan is an undertrial, he will be allowed to wear his own clothes. Apart from being Shah Rukh Khan's son, the other identity of the star kid inside the jail is undertrial N596.

There have been reports that Aryan has been surviving only on biscuits and water he bought from the jail canteen and that the water bottles he had bought earlier were also almost exhausted. However, it is now learnt that mother Gauri Khan had sent Rs 4500 through money order to Aryan three days ago and he can now use this money to buy things available in the jail canteen. All the inmates can spend Rs 4500 a month and this money can only be sent to them via money order.

Talking about the items available in the jail, we hear that Arthur Road jail serves the following items:

Bread, Namkeen, Bhel, Water Bottles, Vada Pav, Bhajia Pav, Samosa, Chicken Thali, Egg Thali, Mineral Water, Juice apart from daily essentials like soap, toothpaste, oil etc.

It is also reported that after the bail plea order was reserved till October 20, Aryan spoke to his father and mother Shah Rukh Khan and Gauri via video call. Jail inmates are not allowed to physically meet their kin due to Covid-19 norms but are allowed to talk to them via video call twice or thrice a month. Arthur Road jail has around 11 smartphones for the same. There are reports that Aryan broke down on the call, while his parents tried their all to console him.

(With inputs from agencies)

A special NDPS court on Thursday denied bail to actor Armaan Kohli arrested in a drugs case filed by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) of seizure of 1.3gm of cocaine, a small quantity. The court also rejected the bail pleas of two co-accused from whom no recovery was made.

The NCB has booked them for illicit trafficking, abetment and conspiracy and the case can’t be dissected for each individual’s role as the crime is all part of the same thread, for the purposes of bail, special public prosecutor Advait Sethna had argued.

Kohli had argued for bail on the grounds that no case of illicit trafficking is made out and only a small quantity was alleged to be recovered. But the NCB said the bail plea is “misconceived” and had been rejected by the magistrate on September 4.

Actor Pankaj Tripathi is all set to return as lawyer Madhav Mishra in the third season of the hit series 'Criminal Justice'.

Taking to his Instagram handle, Pankaj shared a video in which he introduced himself as the lawyer and talked about his ups and downs in the previous two cases. He further shared that he has a new case for which he has already started his preparations and announced the third season of the show.

"Humne preparation toh shuru kar di hai ab aap ko bhi revision chaalu kar dena chahiye! #CriminalJustice3 filming starts soon! @disneyplushotstar," he wrote the caption.

Salman Khan's father Salim Khan recently shocked everyone with his statement that megastar Amitabh Bachchan should retire now. Acclaimed script writer Salim Khan was talking to a daily when he shared his piece of advice for Big B. Only a few know that Salim Khan has worked with Amitabh Bachchan in more than 10 films. Jai-Veeru of 'Sholay' were conceived and brought into existence by the then famous Salim-Javed jodi. However, now he thinks that Amitabh should 'free himself from the race'. During the interview Salim was quoted saying, 'Amitabh Bachchan should retire now. He has achieved all that he had to in this life. One should keep a few years of life for oneself as well. Amitabh Bachchan has played a brilliant innings professionally. He has done good work so he must free himself from the race. He must take a graceful retirement.' 

Celebrating her birthday on Sunday and the imminent re-opening of movie theatres in Maharashtra, Bollywood's biggest market, on October 22, Rakul Preet Singh said that it was about time people got back to a normal working life.

The actress, who has major films lined up for theatrical release, threw a massive birthday party here, where celebrities such as Riteish Deshmukh, Ayushmann Khurrana, Sidharth Malhotra, Sophie Choudry, and Saqib Saleem, among many others, showed up to wish her the best. The day was doubly special because both Rakul Preet and Jackky Bhagnani announced on social media that they were in a relationship.