India, April 30 -- A metropolitan magistrate court on Thursday remanded alleged drug trafficker Salim Ismail Dola, a close aide of gangster Dawood Ibrahim, in the custody of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) till May 8 in a 2023 drugs seizure case.

The agency had produced Dola, 58, before a special NDPS court, but special judge A M Bhandarwar refused to take up the remand plea, saying that the first remand after the execution of the non-bailable warrant has to be secured from a magistrate court.

Dola' transit remand, issued by a Delhi court on Tuesday, was not considered as first remand and hence, the judge said, he was supposed to be presented before a magistrate first.

"Transit remand won't be considered as a first remand and it is ...