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Virender Singh Basoya, wanted in a major cocaine and mephedrone trafficking case, was extradited from the United Arab Emirates to India on 14 August 2026.
He was flown in on Air India flight 4310 from Dubai and taken into custody on arrival at Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi.
The extradition followed coordinated action by the Narcotics Control Bureau, an Interpol Red Notice and diplomatic engagement with the UAE.
India and the UAE have had an extradition treaty since 1999, ratified in 2000.
The case rests on large seizures including over 500 kg of cocaine recovered at Mahipalpur, Delhi, in October 2024.
Extradition is the formal surrender by one state to another of a person accused or convicted of an offence, so that the requesting state can prosecute or punish them. In India the process is governed by the Extradition Act, 1962, and is normally routed through the Ministry of External Affairs. A typical case begins with an Indian court issuing a Non-Bailable Warrant, followed by a request to Interpol for a Red Notice so that the fugitive can be located and provisionally arrested abroad, and then a formal extradition request to the host country, whose own courts and executive decide whether to hand the person over.
Simple Analogy: A Red Notice is like circulating a 'wanted' photograph to every police station in the world; extradition is the paperwork that actually lets one station hand the person over to another.
India's apex drug law enforcement and coordination agency, working under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985
International Criminal Police Organisation; issues Red Notices to locate and provisionally arrest wanted persons pending extradition. India's National Central Bureau for Interpol is the CBI.
Specialised unit handling organised crime and terror-related investigations in Delhi; made the Mahipalpur cocaine recovery in October 2024
The principal Indian statute on narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances; cocaine and mephedrone are controlled substances under it. Punishment is graded by whether the quantity seized is small, less than commercial, or commercial.
Governs the surrender of fugitives to and from India, and gives effect to India's extradition treaties and arrangements.
Signed at New Delhi on 25 October 1999; instruments of ratification exchanged in 2000. It is the legal basis for surrender requests between the two countries.
A court order authorising arrest without the option of immediate bail; usually a precondition before India seeks an Interpol Red Notice against an absconder.
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Formal surrender of an accused or convict by one state to another for prosecution or punishment
An Interpol notice requesting member countries to locate and provisionally arrest a wanted person pending extradition
A court order authorising arrest without the option of immediate bail
A synthetic stimulant (a cathinone derivative) controlled as a psychotropic substance under Indian drug law