Overview
- Dola, 59, was produced in a Mumbai court on Thursday and remanded to Narcotics Control Bureau custody until May 8 in a 2023 case tied to a 20 kg mephedrone seizure in south Mumbai.
- He arrived in Delhi on Tuesday after deportation from Türkiye under the NCB’s Operation Global-Hunt and was taken into custody at IGI Airport before being moved to Mumbai on Wednesday.
- Turkish police arrested him in Istanbul’s Beylikdüzü on April 25 following surveillance, acting on an Interpol Red Notice that India secured in March 2024.
- Indian agencies say he built a transnational drug network across the Middle East, Africa, and Europe and acted as a bulk supplier linked to D-Company, with cases pending in Maharashtra and Gujarat.
- Home Minister Amit Shah praised the operation as proof of a zero-tolerance approach, and agencies plan to question Dola for leads on routes and associates after earlier UAE deportations of his son in 2025.