In a major breakthrough for the Mumbai Crime Branch, fugitive drug trafficker Salman Salim Shaikh alias Shera Batla (35) — a close aide of notorious narcotics peddler Salim Dola — has been extradited from Dubai. The Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) of Mumbai Police arrested him at the city airport on Friday night, and he has since been remanded in police custody for five days.

Shaikh was wanted in multiple mephedrone (MD) smuggling and manufacturing cases registered under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985, registered in Mumbai, Akola and Telangana.