New Delhi, Aug. 14 -- India has secured the return of fugitive drug kingpin Virender Singh Basoya from the UAE.

Announcing the return of the fugitive on social media, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that the government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is relentlessly tracking down drug traffickers hiding abroad and destroying their entire ecosystem with a ruthless approach.

He called the development a new milestone in the government's zero-tolerance policy towards narcotics. He also said that by tracing the criminal through a top-to-bottom and bottom-to-top approach, Indian agencies have once again proven that no matter where drug traffickers hide, they cannot escape the long arm of Indian law.

Basoya has been accused of mastermi...