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Court allows NCB to take drug kingpin Basoya to Pune

Court allows NCB to take drug kingpin Basoya to Pune
Delhi court allows NCB to take drug kingpin Virender Singh Basoya to Pune on 3-day transit remand · theprint.in

A special police team in India called the NCB catches people who make or sell illegal drugs.

The team caught a man named Virender Singh Basoya.

He was hiding in the United Arab Emirates, a country far away, and was sent back to India.

The police believe he was the boss of a big drug-selling group.

He ran the group from another country and had been hiding since 2024.

A court in Delhi said the police may take him to Pune for three days to ask him questions.

He will travel on an airplane, and the police need special permission for that.

The police found more than 1,800 kilograms of a drug called Mephedrone, also known as 'meow meow'.

Sixteen other people in the group have already been caught.

Now the police want to talk to Basoya about the drugs they found.

Key facts

Accused
Virender Singh Basoya, alleged drug kingpin
Agency
Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB)
Transit remand
3 days
Extradited from
UAE
Total Mephedrone recovered
~1,837 kg (867 kg Pune, 970 kg Delhi)
People arrested
16, with chargesheet filed
Transport
Flight from Delhi to Pune, subject to BCAS permission
Initial seizure
500 grams of Mephedrone in Pune in 2024

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