Mumbai, Apr 30 (PTI) A court here on Thursday remanded notorious drug peddler Mohammad Salim Dola, a close associate of gangster Dawood Ibrahim, to the custody of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) till May 8 in the 2023 drug seizure case.
Dola, 59, was arrested in Turkey under an Interpol Red Notice issued at India’s request in March 2024. He was wanted in India in several narcotics-trafficking cases and was on the run from law enforcement authorities.
He was brought to Delhi on Tuesday. A court in the state capital granted his two-day transit custody to the NCB to take him to Mumbai.
The team brought Dola to the city on Wednesday and produced him before Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (Esplanade) KS Zanwar on Thursday.
The investigating agency sought his remand for 10 days to investigate the matter in detail. The court allowed it until May 8.
The specific case in which the remand was granted is related to the seizure of 20 kilograms of the drug mephedrone from South Mumbai in 2023.
Originally from Dongri in South Mumbai, Dola was actively involved in drug manufacturing and supply chains. He is believed to have operated and expanded mephedrone distribution networks in various parts of the country while operating abroad, investigators said.
