The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) today brought notorious drug trafficker Mohammad Salim Dola, a close aide of fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim, to Mumbai from Delhi. Official sources said, Dola was taken to the NCB office in south Mumbai and will be produced before a court on tomorrow.

A Delhi court had granted a two-day transit remand to facilitate his transfer to Mumbai. He was arrested in Turkey in March 2024 based on an Interpol Red Notice issued at India’s request and had been absconding for years in multiple narcotics trafficking cases.

According to the Ministry of Home Affairs, Dola has a two-decade-long criminal record and was directly involved in several high-value drug seizures, including heroin, charas, mephedrone, mandrax and methamphetamine, particularly in Maharashtra and Gujarat.