New DelhiThe Narcotics Control Bureau is questioning the driver of Shah Rukh Khan‘s son Aryan who is currently lodged at Arthur Road Jail for his alleged involvement in the rave party that was busted on board the Cordelia cruise ship last week. The NCB sleuths are looking to establish the source of the drugs seized from the cruise ship, and how they were procured, sources said.

Aryan was sent to the Arthur Road prison on Friday after a court denied him bail. Along with him, five other men arrested in the case too were sent to the same jail, while two women accused including Munmun Dhamecha were sent to Byculla women’s prison.

Aryan was arrested by an undercover NCB team on Sunday following a raid on a Goa-bound cruise ship. On Thursday, the court had rejected the NCB’s request for further custody of Aryan and seven others and instead sent them in 14-day judicial custody. Incidentally, the court’s order rejecting bail to Aryan came on his mother Gauri Khan’s 51st birthday.

A total of 18 persons have been arrested in the case. The court on Friday also remanded Nigerian national Chinedu Igwe, the latest person to be arrested, in the NCB’s custody till October 11.

Meanwhile, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Saturday conducted searches at the residence and office of film producer Imtiyaz Khatri here in connection with the seizure of drugs from a cruise ship, an official said.

"The Mumbai zonal unit of the NCB began the searches at Khatri's residence and office in Bandra here this morning," he said. Khatri's name cropped up during the interrogation of the accused persons, who were earlier arrested in the drugs seizure case, the official said, adding that the NCB has been cracking down on the drug peddlers and suppliers in the metropolis.

Based on a tip-off that a party was to take place on board the ship, an NCB team had raided the Goa-bound Cordelia cruise last Saturday and claimed to have recovered drugs. A total of 18 persons have been arrested in the case, including Aryan Khan, son of Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan.

(With Agency Inputs)