MUMBAI, 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. 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 indicated that Dola was the supplier and therefore his custodial interrogation was necessary. An NCB team made two MD seizures in Dongri in June 2023 - a haul of 5kg and later 15kg, from two premises, and arrested seven persons. Faisal Shaikh, one of the accused, told investigators that he regularly procured about 40kg of MD from Dola, every month, by paying him Rs.7 lakh per kg and resold it to peddlers. A parallel financial probe has identified Shaikh's drug-linked assets of over Rs.6.4 crore, which have been frozen. Since Dola was not available, the special NDPS court issued a non-bailable warrant for his arrest in 2024, along with a Red Corner Notice. Dola was apprehended on Saturday in Istanbul and was brought to New Delhi on Tuesday. On Thursday, he was produced before the Esplanade court, which remanded him to the NCB's custody till May 8....