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The Bombay High Court on Tuesday granted bail to an alleged drug dealer in the Mumbai-based Cordelia Cruises case in 2021. The court found that there was uncertainty in the seizure of the factory, which could allegedly lead to his acquittal.

A single bench of Justice NJ Jamder granted bail to Abdul Qader Sheikh, who has been in jail for more than two years, on a bond of Rs 1 lakh. Bollywood actor Aryan’s son Aryan has also been arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in a high-profile case. The Supreme Court later granted him bail. Ari is not accused after all.

Sheikh was accused of supplying drugs to some of the accused in the case. NCB claimed that it seized drugs from Sheikh at the time of his arrest. The High Court, in its order, said that there is an apparent contradiction in the description of the drug allegedly seized from Sheikh and the sample collected from him and the sample CFSL received for analysis.

The identity of the sample is uncertain and the applicant’s complicity is based on the seizure of goods returned from him, said Judge Jamder. Therefore, the applicant cannot be considered guilty. The court also took note of the fact that the trial is not going to end soon and Sheikh has been in jail for more than two years.

Sheikh approached the Supreme Court in November 2023 after his bail plea was rejected in a special Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) case.

The 30-year-old Sheikh was arrested from a bus stand opposite a mall in suburban Juhu on October 3, 2021, a day after the NCB raided the Goa-bound cruise ship Cardelia off the coast of Mumbai on suspicion of drugs. According to NCB, 2.5 grams of Ecstasy pills and 54.3 grams of Mephedrone were allegedly seized from Sheikh.




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