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2-Year-Long Hunt Spanned Several Countries, Involved Int’l Agencies
New Delhi: Central agencies and NCB secured the instrumentality of planetary cause trafficker and D Company henchman Mohammed Salim Dola Tuesday morning, ending a two-year-long manhunt that spanned respective countries.
In an cognition monitored by the location ministry, helium was flown from Istanbul connected a peculiar craft which landed astatine the method country of Delhi airport.Union location curate Amit Shah praised the multi-agency operation. "Zero tolerance against Narco syndicates. Under the Modi govt's ngo to ruthlessly smash cause cartels, our anti-narcotics agencies person extended their claws crossed borders done a robust web of planetary agencies.
Now nary substance wherever they hide, nary spot is harmless for cause kingpins," helium said successful a station connected X.Dola, a cardinal supplier of Mephedrone aka Meow Meow drug, was detained successful Turkiye past week aft being geolocated determination successful adjacent coordination with planetary and Indian quality agencies arsenic portion of 'Operation Global-Hunt'. His apprehension is being seen arsenic a large stroke to Dawood Ibrahim's narcotics web successful Turkiye and Bulgaria - a captious conception of the Balkan way linking Asian and South American producers to European markets, sources said.
India had begun tightening its noose astir Dola 2 years agone aft his sanction surfaced successful an probe of Meow Meow labs successful respective states. In March 2024, the Interpol had issued a Red Notice against him connected India's request. The archetypal breakthrough came past twelvemonth erstwhile his son, Tahil Dola, and different associates were arrested by the Mumbai constabulary aft deportation/extradition from the UAE successful coordination with CBI. The agencies subsequently intensified their efforts to zero down connected Dola's location.
His UAE passport made Dola much accessible to Indian agencies, sources said.Earlier this month, the agencies zeroed down connected a level successful Istanbul's Beylikduzu territory wherever Dola was surviving and operating from nether an assumed identity. Subsequently, a raid was conducted by the authorities resulting successful his apprehension.Wanted successful aggregate narcotics trafficking cases successful India, Dola (59), a nonmigratory of Dongri successful Mumbai, had been connected the fugitive database since 2018. Officials said his relation emerged arsenic that of a bulk supplier to downstream organisation networks successful India.
