1 / 10Aryan Khan was 'not even on the cruise' raided by anti-drugs officers on October 2, so the allegation of drug trafficking against him is 'absurd', his lawyer today told a Mumbai court hearing the 23-year-old star son's bail request in the drugs-on-cruise case. The bail hearing will continue tomorrow.2 / 10Amit Desai, representing Shah Rukh Khan's son, said the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB)'s raid started when he had not even checked into the cruise and that he had neither used drugs nor was anything found on him.3 / 10'The allegation of illicit trafficking is inherently absurd. This boy who has nothing, he was not even on the vessel. It is an absurd and false allegation,' he said.4 / 10Also, Aryan Khan 'had no cash' when he was on the cruise ship so he could not have bought drugs, the lawyer added.5 / 10On the NCB claim that Aryan Khan had 'admitted he was about to use charas that was found on Arbaaz Merchant', his defence team said the admissions were forced.6 / 10'The court knows how people are forced to make these statements,' said Amit Desai, who once represented actor Salman Khan.7 / 10Aryan Khan was arrested hours after the anti-drugs agency's officers raided a Mumbai cruise ship party in disguise on October 2. Seven others, including his friend Arbaaz Merchant, were arrested on October 3.8 / 10Mr Desai said even though the investigations were meant to focus on drugs consumed or bought on the ship, Aryan Khan was dragged into the case.9 / 10'I thank the NCB for its cut-paste job. The first remand application did not have the names of the other accused,' said Mr Desai.10 / 10He said the agency later claimed it had found evidence of an international drugs ring on Aryan's WhatsApp and asked for his custody extension based on the arrest of one person, Achit Kumar, an alleged drugs supplier.