Overview
- Dola, who was produced in Mumbai, was sent to Narcotics Control Bureau custody after a court ruling Thursday in a case linked to 20 kg of mephedrone seized in June 2023.
- Turkish authorities detained him in Istanbul under an Interpol Red Notice issued in March 2024, and he was deported to India under the NCB-led Operation Global-Hunt.
- Officials say a courier delivery to his hideout exposed his location after he had stayed indoors for about a year and a half to avoid detection.
- NCB told the court he supplied about 40 kg of mephedrone a month to accused distributor Faisal Shaikh at ₹7 lakh per kg, with pickups near JJ Hospital coordinated over WhatsApp, and investigators have frozen over ₹6.4 crore linked to those sales.
- Officers recovered two Indian passports and a Bulgarian passport in the name “Hamza” from his room, and they are verifying whether the Bulgarian document is genuine.