Overview
- The Mumbai Crime Branch filed its request Tuesday and now awaits a special NDPS court order to take custody after his NCB remand ends on May 8.
- Dola remains with the NCB following extradition from Türkiye on an Interpol Red Notice and transfer to Mumbai after a Delhi transit remand.
- The crime branch says it needs custody to question him in linked cases in Maharashtra, Karnataka and Telangana to trace suppliers, routes and money flows.
- NCB told the court he acted as a bulk supplier and alleged he moved about 40 kg of mephedrone a month to a Mumbai distributor in a profit-driven operation.
- NCB officials say he lived in Türkiye under a Bulgarian passport with the alias Hamza before capture under Operation Global-Hunt.