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Even if you weren't Aryan Khan

The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act was a blunder. Its rampant misuse is playing on TV and it's not entertainment because tomorrow it could be us or our kids

Aryan Khan
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Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan being taken to Arthur Road jail from Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) office after being arrested in connection with the alleged seizure of banned drugs from a cruise ship, in Mumbai (Photo: PTI)

Shekhar Gupta
The maniacal global ‘War on Drugs’ might have calmed down with more rational analysis in most democracies, but it rages on under the many dictatorships, from Iran to China, or elected autocracies, such as Singapore and Malaysia. India is the ‘odd man in’. The ugly and tragic commotion over the case against Aryan Khan and others with him underlines that. As did the earlier malevolence involving poor Rhea Chakraborty and others.

I am not pronouncing anyone innocent or guilty. I wouldn’t dare in almost any case that is sub judice, least of all in one that falls under a law so
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