On 2 October 2021, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) arrested then-24-year-old Aryan Khan, an Indian entrepreneur and son of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, from a cruise ship off the coast of Mumbai for alleged possession of contraband substances. He would spend over 20 days behind bars before being granted bail by the Bombay High Court, and finally given a clean chit by the NCB next year. During this period, both Aryan and his more famous father would be subjected to a visceral media trial conducted both in the mainstream media and social media that has been described by legal scholars as a sort of “moral panic”.