India, May 1 -- International drug trafficker Salim Ismail Dola, brought to India from Turkiye after the Indian authorities sought his custody, has been remanded to the custody of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) until May 8. Dola was remanded on Thursday by a metropolitan court in connection with a June 2023 mephedrone (MD) seizure.

The NCB told the court that Dola had supplied around 40kg of mephedrone, a synthetic stimulant, every month, to one of the accused arrested in the case, Faisal Shaikh, who distributed the contraband to peddlers.

The court allowed the NCB's plea after noting that the case involved seizure of 20kg of MD - more than the commercial quantity, from a co-accused. The court also noted that the material on record ...