Aryan Khan: Textbook case of how not to investigate

In hindsight – and that’s the solely view out there now -the solely ‘good factor’ to return out of the fiasco involving the arrest, incarceration and reputational harm of Aryan Khan is that he’s a ‘high-profile case’. The clear chit given by the Narcotics Management Bureau (NCB) final week, and the ordeal Khan needed to bear since October, should grow to be a textbook research of tips on how to conduct investigations on this nation.

The truth that Khan was denied bail twice by a Justice of the Peace’s courtroom after which a session’s courtroom earlier than the Bombay Excessive Courtroom found good sense reveals that intimidation and harassment has reached systemic ranges that must be uprooted. Khan, amongst others, had been accused by the NCB of possessing medication, one thing that seven months later the identical NCB’s particular investigation workforce (SIT) has discovered to be unfaithful. The harm achieved, this case and its architects should function a name to make sure such intimidation and makes an attempt to ship pitchfork justice doesn’t recur.

This was an all-too-visible case of a nasty, and certainly mala fide, investigation that included knowledge privateness being abused with decontextualised WhatsApp messages leaked and conclusions gleaned from issues that had no bearing to the case each in time or terrain. For Khan, it will be fairly nicely inside his proper to press costs towards the NCB for the ordeal he has been made to undergo due to legislation and order (sic) authorities, in addition to members of the decrease judiciary, primarily happening a witch hunt.

These concerned within the unhappy, dangerous and harmful affair have to be dropped at guide to set an instance. It’s NCB’s repute as a ‘drugs-buster’ that must be recovered, together with an trustworthy appraisal of how due diligence in investigations have to be performed on this nation.