Dubai, June 14
Celebrity disc jockey Aqeel was today discharged in a case of drug possession, about two weeks after he was allegedly caught with ecstasy tablets in his bag at the international airport here, his lawyer Ashish Mehta said.
“Aqeel was honourably discharged by the prosecutor as there was no sustainable evidence against him,” his lawyer added.
The local magistrate discharged Aqeel after his lawyer argued that the contraband recovered from his bag was “planted”. Mehta said Aqeel has left Dubai in the morning and has already reached Mumbai.
Aqeel was held at the airport on June 3 with 0.06 gram of ecstasy in his bag and was handed over to the police. However, tests conducted by the police had found no traces of ecstasy in his blood and urine samples. He was visiting Dubai to take part in a radio programme.
— PTI
