new Delhi, April 29 -- Salim Dola (59), a key drug kingpin and close aide of gangster Dawood Ibrahim, was deported to India early Tuesday morning from Turkey and handed over to the Indian agencies, officials aware of the matter said. Dola was detained by the Turkish Intelligence Agency and the Beylikduzu police on Saturday, following inputs from India's agencies. Upon arriving at the airport's technical area, agencies took Dola for interrogation. The CBI facilitated his extradition from Turkey. Interpol had issued a Red Corner Notice against Dola on the CBI's request, as the Mumbai Police and the NCB want him in various cases. The agency will likely release a statement on Tuesday afternoon.According to agencies, Dola is a key operative who runs Dawood's drug network and has recently entered mephedrone manufacturing at clandestine laboratories across different states. He has been active since the 1980s. He was living in Beylikduzu under a false identity. The man is a resident of Mumbai's Dongri and has been linked to many drug busts, and has been arrested by DRI, Mumbai Police, and NCB before he jumped bail and fled the country sometime in 2018. "Dola could be handed to the NCB or the Mumbai police. Both agencies have cases against him. He has been active for more than three decades now. His network's activities have been under surveillance for the past few months," an official aware of the matter said. The Mumbai police found his involvement in a 2024 case related to the seizure of around 126 kg of mephedrone in Mumbai and traced the supply chain from Maharashtra to Turkey and Dubai. People arrested in this case have named him as the person behind the drug manufacturing and supply chain. Dola's son, Tahir Salim Dola, who was named in this case, was extradited from the UAE by CBI last year. According to court records, Dola was first arrested on July 28, 1998, at the Sahara airport in Mumbai while trying to smuggle Mandrax tablets. In 2017, he was arrested by the DRI after the agency seized nearly 1,00,000 gutka pouches worth over Rs 5 crore. The consignment was seized at the Pipavav port in Gujarat and a godown in the national Capital. In reponse to the arrest, Home Minister Amit Shah lauded the NCB for securing Dola from Turkiye. Calling it zero tolerance against the Narco syndicate, Shah said on X, "Under Modi government's mission to ruthlessly smash drug cartels, our anti-narcotics agencies have extended their claws across borders through a robust network of global agencies."...