Aryan Khan is no Rhea Chakraborty. Is he?

Remember Rhea Chakraborty? She was apparently the girl friend of actor Sushant Singh Rajput who was found hanging inside his room locked from inside in Mumbai on 14 June 2020, wikipedia. His death was judged to be "suicide, and not murder, Dr Sudhir Gupta, who led the AIIMS' panel re-evaluating the actor's post-mortem report" said, HT. Following baseless allegations by his family against Chakraborty three central agencies, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) started investigating after ED found some mention of drugs in a mobile phone data. The Hindu. Whose phone we don't know. By October the CBI had found no evidence of any foul play but the harassment continued. Chakraborty and her brother Showik were arrested and their bail plea was opposed by NCB's zonal director Sameer Wankhede, ET. A succession of female Bollywood stars were questioned at NCB's offices in Mumbai, BBC. On 2 October, 2021, "NCB conducted a raid on Cordelia cruise ship going from Mumbai to Goa," after receiving a tip-off about a rave party on the ship, HT. This time they arrested Aryan Khan, son of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, Arbaaz Merchant and Munmun Dhamecha, HT. The NCB claimed to have evidence linking the three to the international drug trade and they were remanded in custody. Shah Rukh Khan engaged a battery of lawyers, including former Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi, to defend his son and Aryan was granted bail by the Bombay High Court on 28 October, HT. This time it was the NCB and its zonal director Sameer Wamkhede who are under fire. A witness Vijay Pagare told a Marathi news channel that Aryan Khan was "framed up" and the raid was pre-planned, ET. Pagare has claimed that he heard discussion of a demand for millions of rupees to settle the case. He said that while he was in a car with one Manish Bhanushali "I heard them saying that a deal of Rs 25 crore (Rs 250 million) was scheduled but settled on Rs 18 crore and Rs 50 lakh (Rs 5 million) taken", India TV. Maharashtra minister and senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Nawab Malik alleged that this "was a case of kidnapping and ransom" and that "BJP leader Mohit Bharatiya, also known as Mohit Kamboj, was the mastermind of the drugs-on-cruise case" and that "he partnered the Narcotics Control Bureau's zonal director Sameer Wankhede in demanding ransom", HT. Malik's son-in-law Sameer Khan has just been granted in a drugs related case after 8 months in prison, India Today. "In a tweet, Nawab Malik even shared a copy of Wankhede's birth certificate to claim that he is ineligible for induction into the into the Indian Revenue Services (IRS) in the Scheduled Caste (SC) category since Wankhede is a Muslim by birth," India Today. In 2019, a court in Delhi sentenced a man to 5 years in prison for getting jobs reserved for lower castes using fake certificates, BS. One week back, Malik said "he stood by his claims that the IRS officer was Muslim by birth and had produced a bogus certificate to get a government job", TIE. A Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the NCB has flown to Mumbai to investigate allegations against its officers and will look into six cases, ET. Clearly Aryan Khan is not Rhea Chakraborty who suffered months of insults. This time it is the NCB's turn.